University News

This Aviation Week op-ed describes efforts to advance aviation data analytics. Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University President P. Barry Butler, Ph.D., writes that the rapidly growing field has the potential to save lives and reduce accidents.

Meaningful, high-paying jobs for young people are the focus of a plan set forth on Sept. 27, 2022, by The Boeing Company and Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University.

Vince Taguba, a native of the Philippines who is studying Aeronautical Science at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Arizona, campus, always knew that he wanted to become a pilot.

As a student, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumna Rocio Frej Vitalle ('12) worked in the Eagle Flight Research Center, which helped land her first job modeling and simulating uncrewed flights for FAA NextGen projects.

The networking opportunities and financial assistance that Shaddi Abdala received as a Boeing Scholar at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University helped position the recent graduate right where she wants to be — in a two-year job-rotation program offered as an introduction to a full-time position at The Boeing Company.

Graduate student Kayla Taylor, mentored by professor of Humanities Dr. Ashley Lear, will present a unique study on women in astronomy, at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Paris this fall.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus is partnering with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) this fall to offer a new Airline Management specialization for the existing Master of Business Administration in Aviation (MBAA) program through its College of Business.

Embry‑Riddle partnered with StarterStudio to relaunch the accelerator program earlier this year, after a pandemic-caused hiatus.

An all-women team from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus in Singapore won the Creativity Prize in a nationwide competition by designing an autonomous food delivery system involving robots, cameras, pulsed laser LiDAR sensing and a geospatial navigation and positioning system.

University study abroad programs were all but leveled by the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused them to vastly reduce their offerings or halt international travel altogether for the past two years.

Researchers at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University recently received a $371,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to study the detection systems of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), or drones, to improve the safety of their operation.

In a first, an uncrewed aircraft system, or drone, operated by an Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University team has begun searching for threatened and endangered sea turtles beyond visual sight lines.