Research Projects Directory

PI Samantha Bowyer

CO-I Ronnie Mack

Aerospace Student-Teacher Program for Innovation, Research, and Education (ASPIRE) aims to provide high school students and educators with the opportunity to immerse themselves in experiential learning in the scientific environments and receive mentorship from trained scientists.

PI John Craiger

Small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), also known as drones, have been called flying computers given the overlap in their technologies. The purpose of this research is to conduct cybersecurity vulnerability assessments of several sUAS to identify vulnerabilities, threats, and associated exploits to the sUAS. Cyber vulnerabilities could theoretically allow a bad actor to take control of the sUAS, cause it to malfunction while in flight, and more. 

PI Richard Stansbury

ERAU has completed or is conducting research tasks addressing the impact of maintenance induced failures on UAS safety; the function allocation of systems operations between automated systems, remote pilots, and support crew, surveillance criticality for detect, and avoid systems; impact of UAM air traffic on air traffic controllers; data analysis to determine the impact of UAS on the NAS, UAS flight data recorder requirements, etc.

PI Yue Zhou

CO-I Wenhao Zhang

CO-I Heer Patel

CO-I Henil Patel

CO-I Sirish Namilae

This project leveraged binder jetting processes to directly fabricate metallic battery cases integrated with various cooling channels, paving the way for the additive fabrication of metallic thermal management devices applied in the aerospace field.

PI M. Ilhan Akbas

The overall purpose of this project is to inform rulemaking and standards development regarding potential Right of Way (RoW) concepts for manned and unmanned aircraft in the low altitude environment. 

PI Massoud Bazargan

PI Massoud Bazargan

PI Morad Nazari

CO-I Daewon Kim

PI Reda Mankbadi

PI Daewon Kim

CO-I Eduardo Rojas

PI Louis McNally