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Aerospace Engineering student Spencer John has translated his lifelong love of space into a significant accomplishment: publishing a paper in an academic journal as an undergraduate student.

Aerospace Engineering students Alex Clay and Samir Ahmed have spent the past four years at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University manufacturing complex liquid-propellant rocket engines. Now, as they near graduation, there is one last thing they’d like to do: Prepare for ignition.

Deneen DeFiore and Patrick Morrissey have been named to each receive a first-of-its-kind ACE (Aerospace Cybersecurity Excellence) Award, recognizing their efforts to combat aviation cybersecurity threats.

After crunching a mountain of astronomy data, Clarissa Pavao, an undergraduate at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Arizona, campus, submitted her preliminary analysis. Her mentor’s response was swift and in all caps. “THERE’S AN ORBIT!” he wrote.

Watching your payload shatter as it hits the ground at 50 mph would be disheartening to most, but to the members of a unique Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University club, failure is just an opportunity to improve.

Two students from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Space Technologies Laboratory recently visited Intuitive Machines (IM) in Houston to put the finishing touches on the EagleCam CubeSat, which is scheduled to launch to the moon later this year.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University student Patrick Hunter has his career sights set on remote piloting drones to utilize uncrewed aircraft systems in exciting, new ways. Already, as a student in the Master of Science in Unmanned Systems program, he has been involved in a project using drones to track endangered turtles.

Taylor M. Yow set her career path in high school. More than anything, she wanted to become an engineer, working on spacecraft and orbital calculations. She didn’t realize just how quickly she would become a part of science history after arriving at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University students are designing a rocket that can soar through the Earth’s atmosphere and reach outer space, only to be recovered through a parachute system for reuse. The project’s aim is to make spaceflight more affordable to researchers — especially student researchers and those working in higher education.

When an animal’s life is at stake, every second counts. Nowhere is this felt more keenly than southern Africa’s game reserves, where increasingly sophisticated poaching squads are decimating elephant and rhino populations on a daily basis.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University was selected to participate in a national effort to bolster the engineering workforce, receiving a grant of $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to provide STEM scholarships to students in accelerated bachelor’s-plus-master’s degree programs.

In his latest “Aviation Week” essay, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University President P. Barry Butler, Ph.D., describes efforts to advance aviation data analytics — a rapidly growing field aimed at saving lives and preventing accidents.