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If at first you do not succeed: the student benefits of multiple trials on summative assessments.

  • PI Emily Faulconer

    CO-I John Griffith

    CO-I Hayden Frank

  • This paper explores the combination of multiple attempts on assessments with immediate feedback through the LMS. The data reveals that students who do not earn an A are likely to use additional attempts and they tend to do better on future attempts.
Implementing Active Learning Techniques in an Undergraduate Aviation Meteorology Course

  • PI Daniel Halperin

    PI Joseph Keebler

    CO-I Robert Eicher

    CO-I Thomas Guinn

    CO-I Kim Chambers

  • ​Student feedback from end-of-course evaluations repeatedly indicated a desire to change the format of the course by de-emphasizing the PowerPoint-based lectures. The goal of the present study was to determine whether including a set of new active-learning techniques in an Aviation Weather course would result in better student understanding (as measured by exam scores) and make the course more engaging (as measured by end-of-course evaluations). During 2018-19, three instructors implemented five different active-learning techniques into their classes (i.e., the experimental group), while two instructors continued to use the unrevised course materials (i.e., the control group). The new active-learning techniques, described below, included daily quizzes, polling questions, flipped classroom sessions, in-class activities, and assertion-evidence-based lectures. All sections used the same assignments and exams, allowing for direct assessment of the effectiveness of the active-learning techniques. Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) tables were used to determine the statistical significance of the differences in exam scores. Indirect assessments in the form of end-of-course evaluations were also examined. 
Improved Image Processing for Orbit Estimation

  • PI Troy Henderson

  • This project seeks to improve orbit estimation methods using advanced image processing techniques applied to images from ground and space-based telescopes.
Improving Undergraduate Student Persistence, Performance, and Perspectives in Online STEM Courses via a Community of Inquiry and Decreasing Students' Cognitive Load

  • PI Emily Faulconer

    CO-I Darryl Chamberlain

    CO-I Beverly Wood

  • ​This project aims to serve the national interest in high-quality undergraduate STEM education by designing and studying a pilot program to improve online discussion forums in STEM courses. The goal of the project is to positively impact student persistence, performance, and perspectives in asynchronous online STEM courses.
In Service Performance of Pipe to Structure Connections

  • PI Payal Kotecha

  • Dr. Kotecha was awarded a research grant for $200,000 from the Florida Department of Transportation to investigate pipe-to-structure connections.
Incorporating ANSYS Simulation Tools Into Engineering Programs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  • PI Fady Barsoum

    CO-I Arka Das

    CO-I Heidi Steinhauer

    CO-I William Engblom

    CO-I Chad Rohrbacher

  • This project aims to introduce and implement ANSYS computer modeling and simulation tools into the Engineering Programs at Embry-Riddle.
Increasing Student Interactions with Learning Objectives

  • PI Emily Faulconer

  • The purpose of this work was to develop additional teaching strategies to increase student interaction with and awareness of the student
    learning objectives. The influence of these targeted strategies on student perception of both the clarity of learning objectives and their overall connection to the course activities and deliverables was measured using an end-of-course evaluation (EOCE) with Likert-scale responses.
Increasing student learning and engagement using a TV series: Leadership in the Final Frontier

  • PI Anke Arnaud

  • Educators are continuously concerned with developing innovative and effective teaching methodology to increase student learning and engagement. This study is designed to assess the effectiveness of an innovative instructional methodology, using a TV series to teach and develop leadership understanding, skills and knowledge.
Influence of Activated Carbon Surface Oxygen Groups on Elemental Mercury Adsorption from Aqueous Solution

  • PI Emily Faulconer

    CO-I David Mazyck

  • In this work, aqueous adsorption of Hg(II) and Hg(0) onto surface-modified activated carbon was analyzed in a batch system with respect to the following carbon modification variables: modifying reagent, reagent concentration,  and activated carbon. The goal of this study was to elucidate the influence of C(O) on aqueous Hg(0) adsorption. The objectives of this study are as follows: 1) to increase a carbon’s acidic C(O) without significant pore damage and 2) to identify the conditions that produce the greatest removal of aqueous mercury (Hg(II) and Hg(0)) between two types of powdered activated carbon.

Influence of cold expansion and aggressive environment on crack growth in aluminum alloy

  • PI Alberto Mello

    CO-I Christopher Leirer

    CO-I Ken Shishino

    CO-I Open Position - New students are welcome

  • This research aims to establish the effect of hole cold expansion on fatigue life of pre-cracked material under aggressive environment.
Information Systems (IS) and Information Security & Assurance (ISA) Curriculum Development and Design: A DACUM Approach.

  • PI Leila Halawi

    PI Wendi Kappers

    PI Aaron Glassman

  • Issues associated with information security are numerous and diverse. Since the majority of organizational actions rely greatly on information and communication technologies, Information Systems (IS) security and Information Security & Assurance (ISA) is now a main concern for firms, governments, institutes, and society as a whole. As a result, a plethora of graduate programs have been created, covering nearly every aspect of IS security. The purpose of this project is to document the findings for using a particularly inventive and extremely efficient technique of job skill analysis known as a DACUM, which stands for “developing a curriculum.” A DACUM begins with an identification of an industry pool that is further reduced to an expert panel, culminating in a daylong workshop to identify new job skill statements and skill needs.
Integrated Communication and Environmental Sensing for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems

  • PI Thomas Yang

    PI Siyao Li

  • Current communication networks with transmitter/receiver nodes can provide large-scale area coverage and robust interconnection between nodes. This allows for the seamless integration of sensing functions into the existing communication framework, paving the way for Integrated Communication and Sensing (ICAS). Unlike previous generations that treated communication and sensing separately, ICAS eliminates the need for additional hardware, extra transmit power, or dedicated frequency bands, by enabling communication signals to support data transmission and environmental sensing simultaneously. This convergence makes ICAS a key feature of six-generation (6G) communication and enables advanced applications, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) missions, autonomous driving, surveillance, and smart cities, to be powered by a single transmitted signal.

    This project aims to develop a novel ICAS framework tailored specifically for autonomous systems operating in safety-critical environments. The primary focus is enabling environment sensing by systematically analyzing the received information-carrying communication signals, through line-of-sight and/or reflected and scattered paths.