Dr. Mary Niemczyk
Assistant Professor

Dr. Mary Niemczyk is an Assistant Professor in the Aeronautical Management Technology department at Arizona State University.  She earned her doctoral degree in Learning & Instructional Technology at Arizona State University.

Dr. Niemczyk’s educational and professional experience consists of work in both the aviation and education environments. Her aviation experience includes her work as a financial manager at a major US airline, and co-founder of an aviation human performance research company that focused on issues concerning pilot training and human factors in working with the automated cockpit. She has also served as an instructional design consultant to the US airline industry.

Dr. Niemczyk has also been active in the educational technology arena where her research has focused on self-regulation of student learning and motivation, and teaching and learning in computer-based environments. Based on this work, she has also developed many instructional units focusing on improving classroom learning and instruction.  Her current research interests are focused on metacognition, self-regulation and learning strategies utilized by pilots in various learning environments as well as determining possible cognitive processing differences utilized by novice and expert pilots. Dr. Niemczyk has presented her work at both aviation and education conferences and has published her work in both aviation and education books and journals. She is the faculty sponsor of the student Women in Aviation International group at ASU. Dr. Niemczyk is also an FAA certified private pilot.