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GE Digital and Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University initiated a partnership in 2020 when the university adopted GE Digital’s Safety Insight® software, which includes Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) technology to enhance flight safety operations on their flight line and create dynamic learning experiences with their data analytics curriculum.

For the third year, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University students participated in the Invent for the Planet 48-Hour Engineering Design Contest, bringing four teams to compete with students from 24 other participating colleges from around the world. Their directive: Innovate to solve the most pressing real-world problems.

Researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University helped bring the goal of widespread drone delivery service and air taxis closer to fruition, by flying small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS) along simulated delivery routes in Florida.

Graduate students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University gained valuable real-world experience last semester, working closely with upper-level employees at Textron Aviation, the manufacturer of Cessna and Beechcraft aircraft.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University sophomore Lillian Sudkamp has been selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants worldwide for the Brooke Owens Fellowship Class of 2022, an honor that includes an internship at a leading aerospace firm.

Dr. Riccardo Bevilacqua, Aerospace Engineering professor at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University, is on a mission. His goal: enable flexible spacecraft, equipped with either mounting appendages or large membranes, to autonomously control their motion, in-orbit.

Two Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University faculty members on Feb. 1 were named Fellows of the elite American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). They were among only 28 new AIAA Fellows nationwide to earn the distinction this year.

Exemplifying Black excellence in aerospace, six Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students won 2022 Patti Grace Smith Fellowships, selections that set each of them up with paid summer internships at respected space companies.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University this week joined a national effort to build aviation and aerospace cybersecurity after being selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to receive $3,875,000 that will be awarded in scholarships to students.

In keeping with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's role as a thought leader in the area of aviation safety, faculty member Dr. Eduardo Rojas-Nastrucci has been contributing to public discourse about 5G networks.

Dr. Jim Gregory, dean of Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s College of Engineering (COE), received the prestigious Frank G. Brewer Trophy for significant contributions to aerospace education from the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) at an event in December.

Researchers from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University will advance testing and development of a device designed to help patients born with only one functioning heart ventricle, thanks to a $300,000 grant from the Children’s Heart Foundation, which brings the funding the project has received since the researchers began work in 2015 to $700,000.