{"425621":{"#nid":"425621","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Federal Aviation Administration recognizes AE graduate researcher","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering graduate student Alek Gavrilovski has been recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a PEGASAS Outstanding Student Researcher Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnouncement of the honor came on June 4, during the annual meeting of the PEGASAS Center of Excellence for General Aviation -- a national gathering of\u0026nbsp; industry, government, and academic partners in general aviation, held at Georgia Tech June 3-5. Find out\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/node\/1407\u0022\u003Emore\u003C\/a\u003Eabout this meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes the stature of Gavrilovski\u0027s overall scholarship, including his most recent project, Rotorcraft ASIAS (Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing), which is seeking to improve the safety record of helicopters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022While the overall safety record in aviation has improved a lot over time, the safety of rotorcraft vehicles is still order-of-magnitude much worse than with commercial aviation,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So the idea [with ASIAS) was to use flight data monitoring (FDM), which is already used in commercial airlines, to improve the safety of rotorcraft flight.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGavrilovski plans to create a unified data-sharing network to enable directed safety studies of rotorcraft data. As a part of this work, he will identify the events, parameters, rates and exceedences that are currently recorded using existing equipment. Along with an exhaustive literature search, his goal is to create and continually improve a rotorcraft-specific FDM system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDr. Dimitri Mavris and his student, Alek Gavrilovski during a reception for the PEGASAS\u0026nbsp;COE\u0026nbsp;meeting\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Because we will be looking at actual flight data -- information that could identify a particular pilot -- we had to run our entire plan though the Institutional Review Board (IRB), which was something new for me,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022But it looks like we are cleared to begin.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGavrilovski plans to pursue the Rotorcraft ASIAS project as a part of his doctoral work at Georgia Tech\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.asdl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAerospace Systems Design Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ASDL) where he works under the mentorship of Dr. Dimitri Mavris and Dr. Hernando Jimenez. A native of Macedonia, Gavrilovski earned his undergraduate and masters degrees at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022500\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFrom left, Purdue Professor William Crossley, FAA\u0026nbsp;Manager of Aviation Research Dr. Eric Neiderman, GT-AE doctoral student Alek Gavrilovski, and Dr.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDennis Filler, Director of the FAA Technical Center\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerospace engineering graduate student Alek Gavrilovski has been recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a PEGASAS Outstanding Student Researcher Award"}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 12:05:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"135401","name":"Alek Gavrilovski"},{"id":"4341","name":"FAA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}