Safety in Aerospace and Flight Environments (SAFE) Lab

Nancy J. Currie-Gregg

currie-gregg@tamu.edu

979-458-2342

ETB 4080

Professor of Engineering Practice, Aerospace Engineering & Industrial & Systems Engineering

Don Lummus ’58 Professorship of Practice in Engineering

 

Education

  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Specialization in Human Factors Engineering and Artificial Intelligence; University of Houston – 1997
  • M.S., Safety Engineering, University of Southern California – 1985
  • B.S., Honors in Biological Sciences (Interdisciplinary), The Ohio State University – 1980

Awards

  • United States Government Presidential Rank Award, Meritorious Senior Professional (2015)
  • NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1998, 2012)
  • NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (2005)
  • NASA Quality and Safety Achievement Recognition Award (2005)
  • NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2003)
  • The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award (2011)
  • Army Aviation Association of America Hall of Fame (2010)
  • University of Houston, Industrial Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Award (2010)
  • The Ohio State University Distinguished Alumni Award (2000)

Experience

  • Over 35 years of US government and military experience
  • NASA astronaut with over 1,000 hours in space during four missions – STS-57, StS-70, STS-88, STS-109
  • Master Army Aviator with over 4,000 flight hours in rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft, Retired at rank of Colonel
  • Served in senior engineering positions at NASA, including Deputy Director of Engineering, Chief Engineer, and Principal Engineer. Member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service.
  • Led the Space Shuttle Program Safety and Mission Assurance Office following the Columbia accident, directing efforts enabling the safe return of the Space Shuttle

Publications

  • Currie-Gregg, N. & Carney, K. (2018). Development of a human vibration finite element model for use in spacecraft coupled loads analysis. Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, Special issue on Evaluation and Attenuation of Negative Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Human Body.
  • Doarn, C., Travis, T., Oxford, M., Currie-Gregg, N., and Nicogossian, A. (2018). The Perennial Challenge of Human Systems Integration. In Williams, R. and Doarn, C. (eds.), Engineering, Life Sciences, and Health/Medicine Synergy in Aerospace Human Systems Integration. Washington, D.C.: NASA.
  • Currie-Gregg, N.J. & Lawrence, C. (2017). Analysis of Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD) Response for Proposed Orion Crew Impact Attenuation System (NASA/TM-2017-219657, Vols. 1-6). Hampton, VA: NASA Langley Research Center.
  • Currie-Gregg N.J., Lawrence C., Somers J. (2017). Occupant Protection Modeling and Injury Prediction for NASA Human Exploration Spacecraft. In D. Cassenti (Ed.), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Vol. 591, pp. 195-206). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60591-3_18
  • Fong, T., Rochlis, J., Currie, N., Mishkin, A., and Akin, D. (2013). Space telerobotics: Unique challenges to human-robot collaboration in space. In D. B. Kaber (Ed.), Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics (Vol. 9, pp. 6-56). Santa Monica, CA: HFES. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557234X13510679.