Aviation · Human factors · Ergonomics
I’m Thomas Schieffer, an FAA A&P mechanic connecting hands-on aviation experience with psychology and graduate study in human factors engineering. My focus is making technical information, procedures, and systems easier for people to use.
Selected projects
Hangar Copilot
A maintenance-support prototype exploring how task context, technical references, and human review can work together. In development—not an operational or validated maintenance tool.
Manufacturing Simulation
A production model connecting stations, queues, transport, testing, and rework. Thirty replications illustrate why average output and consistently meeting daily targets are different questions.
01 / Experience translated
Career highlights
03 / Background & direction
About Thomas
My career brings together aircraft maintenance, automotive diagnostics, prototype support, and teaching. Studying psychology and industrial and systems engineering gives me a way to examine that experience through a human factors lens.
I’m interested in maintenance human factors, reliability and maintainability, procedure design, aviation operations, and training and human-performance programs.
My path to human factors.
Education
M.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mississippi State University · Human Factors Engineering focus · Expected December 2027
B.S. Psychology
Oregon State University · Human Factors and Ergonomics Psychology focus
A.A.S. Aviation Maintenance
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology · FAA Airframe and Powerplant Certificate