Demand is high for graduates entering the professional aviation and aerospace workforce with resilience competencies like adversity persistence, contextual awareness, being self-directed and autonomous, handling change, and ability to establish peer relationships. Research shows resilience competencies are particularly emphasized as essential companions to technical skills among workers in these high-consequence industries, and are viewed as critical predictors and determinants of early career success. However, literature also suggests a growing gap in adequate resilience competency preparation and transfer from academic into professional settings. It is essential for both educator and learner therefore to more precisely identify and engage specific resilience skills. This cross-sectional study examined attitudes and practice of key resilience skills of students in university/collegiate aviation programs during problem-based coursework. A five-point Likert survey instrument was used to evaluate participant levels of agreement and self-reported levels of engagement in resilience behaviors. Exploratory Analysis compared participant data against a resilience competency model developed for this study. These factors include: Adversity Persistence, Contextual Awareness, Self-Directed/Autonomy, Change Management, and Social/Peer Relational Connectivity. A refined resilience competency model emerged from the data that will be used to develop a more effective approach to teaching and applied learning strategies for the practice and transfer of essential resilience competencies into the industry. This is essential in order to meet required performance levels of safety, reliability and other grand challenges facing the future aviation and aerospace workforce. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]