Thea Feyereisen is a Distinguished Technical Fellow in Human Factors for Honeywell Aerospace Technologies. She is an innovation leader in aviation safety systems including vision systems, runway safety, moving maps, energy state displays, traffic displays and cross-cultural user interfaces. She currently leads Honeywell’s Runway Surface Alerts, Vision Systems, Moving Map and Flight Deck Path to Autonomy research teams. Ms. Feyereisen’s research teams helped introduce several safety systems into the civilian flight deck, including SmartView Synthetic Vision System, INAV Moving Map, Cockpit Display of Traffic Information, Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System with Mandarin Language Alerts, Runway Overrun Awareness and Alerting System, and (soon to be certified) Runway Surface Alerts. She is co-inventor on over 75 patents and has 30 published papers. Ms. Feyereisen is the first woman at Honeywell to earn Distinguished Fellow title, the most prestigious technical ranking within the company. She is recipient of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) 2023 Achievement Award winner – the top award presented annually since 1952. She is Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and recently elected into the National Academy of Engineering. Thea has a master’s degree in Aeronautical Science Human Factors from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and has been with Honeywell for 27 years. Prior to joining Honeywell, she flew as a bush pilot in Alaska. Her favorite part of her job is when she gets to occupy the jump seat as a flight test conductor evaluating new flight deck safety systems on one of Honeywell’s test aircraft including the Dassault Falcon 900, Gulfstream 550, AW139 helicopter, Pilatus PC-12, Embraer 170 and the Boeing 757.