Esa Rantanen
Dr. Esa M. Rantanen trained as a commercial pilot with Finnair, the national carrier of Finland. He also has seven years (1984–1991) of experience as an air traffic controller and an air traffic control instructor, as well as a participant in a number of technical and operational task forces with the Finnish Civil Aviation Administration and the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Associations.
Dr. Rantanen has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Aeronautical Science degree form Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. He also has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering degree from the Pennsylvania State University, with specialization in human factors/ergonomics engineering. His Ph.D degree is from Penn State as well, in Engineering Psychology. At Penn State, he did research on human visual performance and workload measurement and temporal characteristics of human motor control.
Dr. Rantanen served as an assistant professor at the Institute of Aviation of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1999 to 2007, teaching courses in the graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Human Factors and undergraduate Aviation Human Factors program. Presently Dr. Rantanen is an associate professor of psychology at RIT (since fall 2007). He is primarily teaching courses in the MS in Experimental Psychology program and supervising graduate students’ thesis research in the Engineering Psychology track of the program.
Dr. Rantanen’s research interests lie in the areas of human factors in complex systems, human performance measurement and modeling, mental workload, decision making, and human error and reliability. The current application domains for his research are air traffic control (controllers’ situation awareness), healthcare (patient safety), and electric power control rooms (power system visualization).
Dr. Rantanen has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Aeronautical Science degree form Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. He also has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering degree from the Pennsylvania State University, with specialization in human factors/ergonomics engineering. His Ph.D degree is from Penn State as well, in Engineering Psychology. At Penn State, he did research on human visual performance and workload measurement and temporal characteristics of human motor control.
Dr. Rantanen served as an assistant professor at the Institute of Aviation of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1999 to 2007, teaching courses in the graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Human Factors and undergraduate Aviation Human Factors program. Presently Dr. Rantanen is an associate professor of psychology at RIT (since fall 2007). He is primarily teaching courses in the MS in Experimental Psychology program and supervising graduate students’ thesis research in the Engineering Psychology track of the program.
Dr. Rantanen’s research interests lie in the areas of human factors in complex systems, human performance measurement and modeling, mental workload, decision making, and human error and reliability. The current application domains for his research are air traffic control (controllers’ situation awareness), healthcare (patient safety), and electric power control rooms (power system visualization).
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