Join the ADvanced AIRspace Usability (ADAIR) project!
Aviation is rapidly changing: In the next 15 years, the number
of air passengers and the number of aircrafts will double
compared to their levels in 2017. New flight deck technologies
are urgently required to sustain this expected growth.
Polytechnique Montreal, McGill University and Ryerson University
joined together to design the flight deck of the future. We work
in human factors, user-centered design, mixed reality and
avionics systems, and you can be part of that team.
We are currently looking for top-minded researchers and
students to join our research program and transform the way
pilots interact with the cockpit.
Open research positions
- 2 Post-doctoral fellows. Full-time position. Salary +
benefits of CAD 60,000/year. Duration 3 years.
- 5 PhD students. Scholarship of CAD 22,500/year. Minimum
duration 3 years.
- 2 Master's students. Scholarship of CAD 20,000/year.
Duration 2 years.
The project will start in Spring-Fall 2022 for a duration of
three years. Graduate applicants will typically be considered
for September admissions.
What you will work on
- Investigate the future tasks of pilots and how technology
will change aviation in the next 15 years.
- Design multimodal interactions for the flight deck of the
future on one of the following topics: trajectory-based
operations (TBO), airport taxi navigation, data management and
datalink communication.
- Prototype human-machine interactions on a flight simulator
and test your designs with real pilots.
- Publish and present scientific articles to share your
findings.
- Post-doctoral fellows will also be responsible for test
readiness on the flight simulator, project management,
coordination between academic and industrial partners and
mentoring of other students.
We planned the project such that you can focus your work on one
research topic in a specific interaction domain.
- Multimodal interactions will design the
user-facing interactions between the pilot and aircraft
technologies on head-down formats. It will investigate
different interaction modalities, such as visual, tactile, or
auditory to improve pilot's task performance, experience and
operational safety. Expected workplan: 2
PhD students will work on TBO, 2 PhD students will work on
data management and communication and 1 PhD student will work
on airport taxi navigation.
- Avionics integration will study how to
implement on avionics software and hardware the interactions
developed by the Multimodal team for the topics of TBO and
data management. It will study logical and physical
architecture for efficient data exchange between avionics
functions. Expected workplan: 1
Master's student will work on TBO and 1 Master's student will
work on data management and datalink communication.
- Flight deck interactions will study
pilot's interactions in the future airspace and will develop
assistive technologies to improve task automation. Expected
workplan: 2 PhD students will work on this
topic.
Why should you join us
- You will join a Master or PhD program where you will learn
user-centered design, human factors and avionics.
- Gain research experience in collaboration with industrial
partners: You will work with the talented engineering teams of
our six partners on human factors, flight deck design and
avionics. These companies have already hired several of our
graduates following their degrees.
- New to aviation? We will subsidize registration fees for
aviation classes to help you obtain your Private Pilot License
(PPL).
- Join our teams of graduate students from diverse backgrounds
ranging from industrial design to engineering. Spoiler alert:
Motivating!
Want to learn more?
Get in touch and tell us what interests you in this project.
Follow the links to our academic profiles (below) and write us an
email. If you'd like to provide your academic transcript, job
resume or extracts of your previous research, that would be
welcome but is not required at this point.