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A team of Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University students finished in fourth place at this year’s International RoboBoat Competition, where a record number of 23 teams from nine countries competed.

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Arizona, campus is globally respected for leading-edge programs that train tomorrow’s leaders in aviation, aerospace and STEM — and we have the rankings to back up that reputation.

Inspiration appears through unexpected images. Seeing his short, slight cousin in charge of a powerful Boeing 747 made a big impression on Giuliano Vallesi (’03). He loved planes from an early age, but when his family visited an airport in his home country of Brazil to meet a relative who flew for Alitalia, he met his first airline captain.

When Bethune-Cookman University student Israel Oyekan joined the intercollegiate EcoCAR EV Challenge team with Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University, he figured it was an opportunity to learn something new and work with students who shared his love for engineering.

After 40 years of experience in various roles, such as leading aviation marketing efforts, cofounding two companies — Azul Airlines and Breeze Airways — consulting, writing 18 books on aircraft and serving as publisher of Flap International magazine, Beting still gets excited when talking about airplanes and the industry built around them.

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.

Cadets from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Army ROTC will compete among the best teams in the world at the international Sandhurst Military Skills Competition April 29-30, at the U.S. Military Academy West Point.

Amerijet International Airlines announced the launch of its Pilot Pathway Program with Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University.

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.

In his latest “Aviation Week” essay, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University President P. Barry Butler, Ph.D., emphasizes the need to “place mental health issues front and center” to improve aviation safety.