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Aviation Week Op-Ed: Collaborations Critical to U.S. Leading in AAM, Embry-Riddle President Writes
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.
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Embry-Riddle Study of Coordinated Movement in Nature Could Provide Engineering Insights
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.
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Embry-Riddle Researcher Advances Pilot Training Methods to Improve Operational Performance
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.
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The Sun Warms and Enchants Us — and Occasionally Goes on the Attack
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.
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