University News

In his latest Aviation Week essay, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University President P. Barry Butler, Ph.D., highlights how coordination between the public and private sectors — as well as academia — is crucial to safely launching and integrating advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft into the nation’s airspace.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University faculty led students this summer in a new study abroad program to India that included a behind-the-scenes tour of the Boeing India Engineering and Technology Center, the largest Boeing facility of its kind outside the U.S.

In newly published research in the journal Scientific Reports, Dr. Subhradeep Roy, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and graduate Ian McKinney introduced a new, easy-to-apply computational method for analyzing collective behavior in biological systems — a method that could also be used for designing coordinated swarms of drones, robots and other systems.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University faculty member Dr. Omar Ochoa a nearly $500,000 grant to direct undergraduate students interested in researching the use of artificial intelligence in safety-critical systems, such as aviation, transportation and healthcare.

New research by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Presidential Fellow Dr. Barbara Holder examines pilot training performance at five major airlines to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide, home to the university’s premier online programs and locations across the globe, honored its 100,000th graduate at a recent commencement ceremony aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego.

Three Embry-Riddle students – Adam Mouradi, Joshua Hendrickson and Saarang Sivakumar – were awarded highly competitive State Department scholarships that provide up to $5,000 to U.S. students looking to study or intern abroad.

As exceptionally powerful ejections of magnetically charged plasma from the sun called coronal mass ejections (CMEs) blasted toward Earth in May 2024, two NASA spacecraft formations detected never-before-witnessed solar storm activity.

Governor Ron DeSantis highlighted Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s new partnership with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to advance research on emerging transportation technology.

Mechanical Engineering students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are gaining hands-on experience with a Tesla Powerwall, a compact battery system for storing solar or grid energy.

More than 90 students presented 58 research projects at Embry-Riddle’s second annual Summer Research Symposium. Held at the Mori Hosseini Student Union, the event featured work by students who collaborated with faculty mentors on a broad range of advanced research.

Gregory Zahornacky, an assistant professor of Aeronautical Science at Embry-Riddle, has been honored by the Federal Aviation Administration with the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, a distinction afforded to few aviators.