University News

Yesterday, Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University announced that classes on its Daytona Beach, Florida, campus would be canceled beginning at noon today, Nov. 9, through Thursday, Nov. 10, as Tropical Storm Nicole impacts our area. (This Friday, Nov. 11, is the Veterans Day holiday.)

Calvin Freeman II, an Aviation Business Administration senior on an accelerated MBA track, recently moderated a Presidential Speaker Series event with former FAA chair Dan Elwell. That discussion was just one of many things Freeman has led since the start of his time at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University.

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.

Two Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University Aerospace Engineering faculty members were the co-authors on a publication that won an award for the Best Paper at the 2nd International Conference on Applied Intelligence and Informatics (AII2022) conference, held in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

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.

Dan Elwell, former FAA administrator and a pilot with more than 6,000 hours of civilian and military flight time, spoke to an engaged audience on Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus last week, offering advice drawn from a varied and exciting career in aviation.

This Aviation Week op-ed describes efforts to advance aviation data analytics. Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University President P. Barry Butler, Ph.D., writes that the rapidly growing field has the potential to save lives and reduce accidents.

Students in Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Game Development Club took first place in the MeGa Health Jam, a weekend-long game development competition in Orlando, Florida, for a game they created that could help medical patients practice respiratory exercises.

The networking opportunities and financial assistance that Shaddi Abdala received as a Boeing Scholar at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University helped position the recent graduate right where she wants to be — in a two-year job-rotation program offered as an introduction to a full-time position at The Boeing Company.

Before Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University alumna Rebekah Francis (’21) became the first member of her family to graduate from college, the prospect of higher education seemed almost overwhelming.