Engineering Aviation Safety: Timothy Rowe, TGR Safety
Timothy Rowe is Director of TGR Safety, an aviation safety engineering firm.
He received degrees in electrical engineering and practices as a system engineer, verifying aviation systems like air traffic control.
In this episode of the Accidental Engineer, Tim shares:
- how software has parallels to physical systems like aviation and aeronautics
- what programming languages are qualified for use in mission-critical systems
- why formal methods haven’t found popularity in industry
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Show Notes:
- Timothy Rowe (LinkedIn)
- Timothy Rowe (Quora)
- TGR Safety
- PEBKAC (Acronym)
- Hawaii’s missile alert interface had a one-word difference between sending a test alert and a real one
- Chernobyl nuclear accident
- Three Mile Island nuclear accident
- Christmas Tree packet (Wikipedia)
- Does your software do what it is supposed to? Hillel Wayne teaches TLA+