I have decided to put my academic schedule up for all the world to see.  I think it will help me hold myself more accountable so I can get these things DONE.

Most of my semester revolves around my Thesis. For those of you unfamiliar with a Thesis, it is basically an empirical research question that we test by collecting and analyzing data and then we write a book about it for free.  A Dissertation is much more in depth, so I look forward to starting on that in the next couple of years (um, yeah, no).

I will not include projects I have to do for work because most of it is Classified. Suffice it to say, I do just as much research and writing for work as I do for school.

These are the textbooks I am reading this semester:

We also have empirical journal articles to read each week for those courses.  I will only share with you the ones I am presenting/teaching this semester.

The Big deadlines:

January 11^th – IRB proposal due to Office of Research

January 21st – IRB committee meeting

January 26^th – Psychophysics “quiz” aka The Psychophysics Beast

February 2^nd – Write summary and present this article to class:

• Straightness as the main factor of the Herman grid illusion

March 15^th– Thesis proposal submitted to committee

February 4^th – Occupational Safety report

February 26^th – HFES submissions are due

• Team performance as a function of task difficulty in a distributed computer game-based architecture

 

February 25^th – Occupational Safety report

February 26^th – Interview at Old Dominion University for Human Factors PhD program

March 2^nd – Write summary and present this article to class:

• The perception of distances and spatial relationships in natural outdoor environments

March 16^th – Sensation and Perception Exam (which will be like a punch in the face)

March 18th – Human Participant Research Protection Program Training

April 6^th – Write summary and present this article to class:

• The Doppler illusion: The influence of dynamic intensity change on perceived pitch

April 8^th – Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center Student Capstone Conference

April 12^th – Thesis proposal presentation

April 15^th – Occupational Safety report

April 15^th – Teach class on Noise and Vibration hazards in Occupational Safety

Articles:

• Noise Induced Hearing Loss
• Investigation of musicians’ use of hearing protectors
• Whole-body vibration knowledge survey of U.S. occupational safety and
  health professionals
• Assessment of hearing disorders in rock/jazz musicians

April 27^th – Sensation and Perception Final Exam

April 29^th– Occupational Safety Final Exam

June 7^th – 11^th – Human Systems Integration Training in DC for work cancelled

TBD – Thesis Defense

August 20^th – Thesis due to Office of Registration (holy crap!)

What I have to look forward to:

March 6^th thru March 14^th – Spring Break

March 7th – My birthday (turning 27 and I feel GREAT about it!)

May 19^th – 23^rd – Bloggers in Sin City

May 23^rd – 27^th – Boulder, CO

May 27^th – ^30th – Boston, MA

June 6^th – The National in DC

June 16^th – 24^th: Glasgow for Human Performance at Sea conference

TBD – Trip to Portland*

August 27^th – Graduation (wow!)

August 30^th – Begin PhD program as a 3rd year graduate student!!!!