Teaching flight management systems. Sick at work.

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• Numerous media report on new research from Concordia that deciphers algorithms used in programming flight management systems (or FMS). The forthcoming study, to be published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was led by Luis Rodrigues, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and alumnus Jesus Villarroel (MASc). The researchers have recreated the calculations an FMS makes for a cruising Airbus 320, giving aerospace and aeronautics students a leg up on working with and programming an FMS: Phys Org, NewsWise, Air Traffic Management, Stone Hearth News.
• Media coverage continues of a study examining the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism, by management professor Gary Johns and University of East Anglia academic Mariella Miraglia, with Benefits Pro reporting on the examination of the factors that drive people to report for work when they are sick.

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