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Ph.D. student John M. Thompson has spent the last five years doing research at Embry‑Riddle’s College of Engineering, but this past summer he had the unique opportunity to collaborate on AI-based autonomous vehicle research in Istanbul, Turkey.

Jenna Korentsides never expected to land her dream job, working as a Human Factors engineer at Apple right after graduation.

Undergraduates at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University are helping to improve mirrors that could allow scientists to listen for fainter, more distant cosmic collisions — such as merging black holes or colliding neutron stars.

Featuring speakers and researchers from the Daytona Beach, Worldwide and Prescott campuses, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s two-day AI Summit highlighted the growing role of artificial intelligence in higher education and the aerospace industry.

Research that could greatly improve space mission design efficiency and trajectory planning just got a boost from the National Science Foundation — in the form of a $200,000 Engineering Research Initiative (ERI) grant to Dr. David Canales of Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University.

When a NASA diver carried an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student team’s engineering device into Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, the moment was 10 months in the making.

Five Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University Mechanical Engineering students were chosen for nationally competitive internships conducting research at world-class U.S. Department of Energy laboratories.

When the ESCAPADE mission blasts off toward Mars, instruments designed and built by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students will be on board — ready to probe the red planet’s atmosphere and uncover how solar storms and space weather impact it, thus helping to unravel Mars’ planetary evolution history and possibly paving the way for the first human explorers.

As Hurricane Melissa threatened to unleash devastation in the Caribbean, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University meteorology professor and researcher Dr. Josh Wadler was experiencing the sheer might of the Category 5 hurricane, flying directly into its eye on a Hurricane Hunter plane.

Crash test dummies have improved vehicle safety for decades, but one Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University sophomore is studying how to redesign them to better represent women.

For the past three years, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University student Celso Ferreira de Moura has juggled his studies with on- and off-campus jobs to cover his expenses.