Ac 2011-1435: System Safety Literacy and Multidisciplinary Engineering Education: Teaching Accident Causation and Prevention

Cynthia C. Pendley is a Program Coordinator for the Center for Space Systems in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology where she has served since 2005. Prior to joining Georgia Tech Ms. Pendley was a product developer at Kimberly-Clark Corporation where she was awarded two patents for specialized filtration products. She received her B.S. in Textiles from Georgia Tech and is currently pursuing a Masters in Educational Psychology at Georgia State University. Ms. Pendley’s primary research interest is engineering education, specifically how motivation, interest and cognitive strategies affect problem-solving performance. She is a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).