Jean Jacques Speyer - Professor Brussels Faculty of Engineering [Bruface]- will be the 1st Chairman at Flight & Airport Operations Conference in June in Prague Professor in Aeronautics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Lecturer IFSA, Paris (Airbus – retired) Jean-Jacques Speyer retired from Airbus at the end of 2009. He graduated in Electrical & Mechanical Engineering from Brussels Faculty of Engineering, Belgium, holds an MS degree in Aeronautics & Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and a Human Factors & Ergonomics degree from the Université Descartes in Paris, France. After military duty period as a reserve officer in the Belgian Air Force Transport Wing, he trained at Aer Lingus as a Boeing 707 Flight Engineer, then he joined Airbus in 1978. Starting in Marketing with Route Studies, he moved to Flight Test, where he was involved in some aspects related to the certification of all the Airbus family models. Becoming Director Operational Evaluation at Airbus Customer Services in 2000 he was responsible for fleet Performance Monitoring, development of safety prevention tools, operational evaluation, operational incident reporting. In 2008 he became Senior Director Flight Operations & Training Domain, responsible for launching, developing and conducting consulting services. Within his whole career, he developed: a battery of methods in the field of human factors and aircraft certification aiming at evaluating the impact of new technology on flight operations; a handful of Airbus’ Getting to Grips brochures, as well as several methods in the field of aircraft performance monitoring, aerodynamic deterioration, fuel economy, operating cost economics; in cooperation with the Université René Descartes under contract to the French DGAC, a widely distributed Fatigue & Alertness Management guide (world’s first FRMS system to help Singapore Airlines start ULR operations on their A340-500). He also evaluated the Electronic Flight Folder system for the A380 EFB, and as member of the Airbus’ Human Factors Operational Group, a CRM module. Author of many papers in his field, he received the Wright Brothers Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1982, the Grand Prix de l’Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace in 1987 and obtained a patent relative to crew workload measurement in 1992. He co-Chaired the Global Aviation Information Network, a safety initiative launched by the FAA. In 2004, he became Chairman of a Steering Group for the Flight Safety Foundation’s European Advisory Group (EAC) aiming at developing Operational Guidance for Human Factors in Aviation (OGHFA). He is a member of the European Commercial Aviation Safety Team (ECAST) and still participates to EASA’s HF Advisory Group Meeting (EHFAG). He is also active at the Institut Français de la Sécurité Aérienne where he lectures on Human Factors, Human Factors Incident and Accident Analysis, Safety Management Systems, Fatigue Risk Management Systems, Event Response Planning. Jean-Jacques is Professor in Aeronautics at the Brussels Faculty of Engineering for the past 26 years teaching a course on Aircraft Specification and Certification as well as supervising and coaching MS Thesis projects.
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 09:26:31 +0000
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