University News

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.

It was a moment 11 years in the making — back when the Project Prometheus initiative launched in 2011 with the goal of making functional solid rocket fuel at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University — but the wait paid off last week when Engineering students successfully tested manmade fuel at the Daytona Beach Campus.

Just as a rock thrown into a pond creates an undulating pattern of circular ripples, some double star systems called binaries can push rings of dust into space as one star orbits around its partner, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University astronomer Noel D. Richardson explains.

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.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University researchers are working on technology that could make fusion power generation economically viable, thanks to a $670,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Researchers at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab (SAIL) took part in two recent NASA sounding rocket launches — one in far-north Ny Ålesund, Norway, and another at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The leadership of Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University is pleased to announce that Dr. Jeremy V. Ernst, an accomplished professor in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as currently the associate chancellor for research for the Embry‑Riddle Worldwide Campus, has accepted the position of vice president for research and doctoral programs at the university.

The recent release of never-before-seen imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope — which featured glimpses of colliding galaxies and nebulas up to 13 billion light years away — was a huge deal.

Just as the ocean’s surface can be calm and glassy or churning big waves, a moody portion of space called the ionosphere can smoothly reflect communication signals or bounce them into oblivion.

To help jump-start a thriving innovation corridor offering high-quality, high-paying job opportunities in Volusia County, Florida, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University has partnered with StarterStudio to relaunch its successful business accelerator program.

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.

An Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University doctoral student conducting highly specialized aerospace engineering research, John Zelina tried to keep an open mind when it came to choosing his future career field.