Airline Engineering Apprentice Training

Outcomes of a revised apprentice carpenter fall prevention training curriculum.

Falls from heights are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among construction workers, especially inexperienced workers and those performing residential construction. This research reports changes in fall prevention behaviors following revision of fall prevention training in a union-based carpenters' apprenticeship program. We used a comprehensive needs assessment to identify gaps in app...

Climate engineering by artificial ocean upwelling: Channelling the sorcerer’s apprentice

[1] Recent suggestions to reduce the accumulation of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have included ocean fertilization by artificial upwelling. Our coupled carbon‐climate model simulations suggest that artificial upwelling may, under most optimistic assumptions, be able to sequester atmospheric CO2 at a rate of about 0.9 PgC/yr. However, the model predicts that about 80% of the c...

Predicting Criterion Performance in U.S. Navy Apprentice Technical Training

MuTil – A Computer Based Training System for Apprentice

By creating (semi-)autonomous group structures in enterprises the work content of the workers changes. Workers are confronted with new working which are enriched by new technologies. Existing training tools for apprentices do not present the interaction between different tasks within a workshop. MuTil will implement a scenario with a complex combination of problems typically appearing in a work...

The Effectiveness of Airline Pilot Training for Abnormal Events

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of airline pilot training for abnormal in-flight events. BACKGROUND Numerous accident reports describe situations in which pilots responded to abnormal events in ways that were different from what they had practiced many times before. One explanation for these missteps is that training and testing for these skills have become a highly predictable routin...