Jennifer Murdoch is a research psychologist with in NASA Langley engineering environment known as Hhuman Factors Engineering.Her mission is to gather empirical data from human research participants, usually general aviation or commercial airline pilots, in order to assess the usefulness and usability of new technologies intended for use within the flight deck.

She has always worked at Langley since she came as part of the student pipeline. Murdoch came to Langley while still in high school at Ferguson in Newport News in 1989 through the Summer High School Apprentice Research Program (SHARP), then went through the Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars Program and then the Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP).

Along the way, she has spent time flying as a researcher in Langley’s Cessna 206 and Cirrus SR22 aircraft while investigating the use of weather displays in the cockpit as well as the feasibility of utilizing new procedures in conjunction with smaller airports in order to support the development of a small aircraft transportation system.

Most recently, she worked in Langley's Air Traffic and Operations Laboratory as a co-principal investigator on the "Separation Assurance Human-In-The-Loop (SA HITL) simulation study," she said.

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