{"500771":{"#nid":"500771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Amelia Earhart Fellowship Goes to Favaro for Second Time","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the second time in three years, GT-AE doctoral student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFrancesca M. Favaro\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has been selected to receive the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMentored by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Joseph Saleh\u003C\/strong\u003E, the Italy native is doing research to develop a new theoretical basis for accident prevention and system safety in the aerospace industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Earhart Fellowship was established by Zonta International in 1938 to honor legendary pilot Amelia Earhart, herself a member of the global women\u0027s advocacy and service organization. It is bestowed annually on 35 women who are pursuing doctoral degrees in aerospace-related sciences or aerospace-related engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second time in three years that Favaro has received the $10,000 fellowship. She plans to use the funds to offset fees and living expenses while she continues her research. Favaro anticipates defending her doctoral thesis in March of 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Before\u0026nbsp;I finish up, I\u0026nbsp;hope to publish a textbook, with Dr. Saleh. I have published seven journal papers that will give me a good foundation,\u0022 she said. \u0022After that, I am not sure whether I want to go into industry or continue in academia.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer research on accident causation and system safety principles makes Favaro a very attractive candidate for either career path.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the last three years, Francesca Favaro has been developing a formal framework for using control theory as a method for investigating risk assessment. The work complements current work in this area, which is dominated more by probability and statistical analyses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022My ultimate goal is to expand the intellectual toolkit\u0026nbsp; available to safety professionals and risk analysts in the aerospace industry and beyond,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022My investigations range from commercial and military aviation mishaps -- particularly software-related accidents -- to nuclear, chemical and oil and gas industry accidents.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer work identifies and explores the current shortcomings in the way system accident analysis and prevention are studied.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As new technologies are created, or embedded, in existing systems, new failure modes and mechanisms emerge. I believe that these risks should be preemptively eliminated or mitigated with a safety culture deeply embedded not only during the early system design stages, but also in the initial stages of an engineer training and education.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFrancesca Favaro earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees, focusing on aerospace and space engineering, from Politecnico di Milano, in her native Italy. In addition to the Earhart Fellowship, she is the recipient of the 2013 Giovanni F. Moneti Memorial Fellowship, and an official reviewer for the journals\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EReliability Engineering and System Safety\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003EIEE\u0026nbsp;Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;She is married to fellow GT-AE\u0026nbsp;doctoral student Matteo Carrara and the mother of three-month-old Sofia.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.prism.gatech.edu\/~ffavaro3\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFind out more.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For the second time in three years, GT-AE doctoral student Francesca M. 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