Research Projects Directory

PI Bogdan Udrea

CO-I Greg Diehl

CO-I John Robbins

PI Aaron Clevenger

PI Marc Compere

The goals of Project Haiti are to provide Haitians with clean drinking water, to expose our college students to another culture, and to give them a hands-on experience using their engineering skills to directly help people.

PI Mark Miller

PI Michelle Hight

PI Marc Compere

Pure Water Project aims to improve the health and sustainability of individual communities in the Dominican Republic by installing a solar-powered water purification system. Embry-Riddle students design, build, test and deliver a solar water purifier to carefully selected communities in the Dominican Republic and launch water selling businesses to benefit the local community’s health and economy.

PI Morad Nazari

CO-I Kadriye Merve Dogan

In this project, the ControlX team with ERAU partnership will develop agile, reconfigurable, and resilient dynamics and G&C algorithms for on-orbit servicing to capture a broad set of OSAM applications such as remediation of resident space object (RSO) (e.g., via de-orbiting, recycle, end-of-life servicing, satellite refueling, etc.) using effective tools and methods involving geometric mechanics, constrained G&C synthesis, and reconfigurable robotic manipulators (RRMs). 

PI Kara Fontenot

Building on existing literary and ethnic studies scholarship with respect to the construction of American identity, I am considering the political work of representations of the U.S military in ethnic American literature. Ethnic American texts that contain representations of the U.S. military are an essential yet understudied part of a politicized, nation-centered critical discourse that examines strategies for constructing and negotiating national identity, practices of inclusion and exclusion with regard to citizenship and relationships between individual, racial group, ethnic group and nation.

PI Michael Wills

PI Dothang Truong

PI Michael Wills

PI Kelsey Rodgers

CO-I Matthew Verleger

CO-I Lisa Davids

"Models are a critical part of the analysis and design of engineered systems. The purpose of multiple types of models (physical, mathematical, computational, and financial) is to provide a simplified representation of reality that mimics the features of the engineered system, and that predicts the behavior of the system. This project, a collaboration between Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, San Jose State University, and the University of Louisville, aims to improve engineering students' modeling competence. The project plans to achieve this goal by transforming first-year engineering courses to teach modeling as an engineering tool. The project will change existing course materials, pedagogy, and assessment methods across the three institutions. Each institution will implement its own specific strategy to teach mathematical, physical, computational, and financial modeling, thus providing three different approaches. By comparing student's modeling abilities across the institutions and approaches, the project aims to identify the most impactful approaches for teaching multiple modeling in introductory undergraduate engineering courses.

The project is guided by a "holistic modeling perspective" theoretical framework, that builds on the successful "Models and Modeling Perspective" and "Computational Adaptive Expertise" frameworks. The objectives of the project are to: (1) implement, test, and refine holistic modeling environments for institutions that have flexibility in changing curriculum and for instructors that have different degrees of interest in changing their course(s); (2) implement, test, and refine methods to assess students' modeling abilities; and (3) evaluate and present the results of modeling abilities attained by students at three different universities. A unified language and discussion around modeling will be adopted in all revised courses. An assessment tool to measure students' modeling competence will be developed and implemented at each university. This work builds upon existing research in the development of more easily adaptable and adoptable modeling pedagogies and modeling languages. The following broad research question guides the research: How do students' definitional knowledge, ability to apply, and ability to create models change based on different degrees of modeling integration in the classroom?

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria."