Amy Ruth Pritchett is an American aerospace engineer whose research concerns human–machine interaction in aeronautical and flight control applications.
She is a professor at Pennsylvania State University, where she heads the Department of Aerospace Engineering.
[1] Pritchett majored in Aeronautics And Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), specializing in avionics.
[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Pilot Non-Conformance to Alerting Systems Commands During Closely-Spaced Parallel Approaches, was supervised by R. John Hansman.
[4] Pritchett was named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2020.