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Embry-Riddle meteorology students exploring the Great Plains to observe severe weather over the past couple of weeks got exactly what they were looking for in northern Kansas, three days into their trip.
Just one-quarter mile from the students, an EF-2 tornado – which carries winds of 111-135 mph – crossed the road ahead of them “and then strengthened rapidly,” said Shawn Milrad, assistant professor of meteorology, who – along with Dr. Tom Guinn, professor or meteorology and meteorology program coordinator – accompanied the students.
“It was 15 seconds of pure adrenaline,” said Embry-Riddle senior Sarah Roddey, “to see a tornado forming right on top of us.”
Dr. Anette M. Karlsson, a mechanical and aerospace engineer and a highly accomplished academic leader, has been named Chancellor of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s campus in Prescott, Arizona.
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Daytona Beach Meteorologist Offers Insights on the 2019 Hurricane Outlook
Top weather forecasters are predicting a “near-normal 2019 storm season,” but if current El Niño conditions – a band of warm water from the equatorial Pacific – weaken, it could set the stage for a more active season, said meteorologist Daniel Halperin of Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus.
Embry-Riddle Meteorology Expects Late Start to Arizona Monsoon Season
Although June 15 is often referred to by the National Weather Service as the start of the Arizona monsoon season, the meteorology department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus is predicting a delayed start to the annual summer rainy season.
Graduates of the Practicing Leaders Program Demonstrate Leadership through Giving
The inaugural Embry-Riddle Leadership Institute’s Practicing Leaders cohort demonstrated leadership through philanthropy as the seven-month program concluded May 7 with a gift to the Project Haiti clean water outreach effort.
Since the devastating 2010 Haitian earthquake, Embry-Riddle students and faculty from engineering, human factors and business disciplines have traveled to Haiti at the end of the spring semester to help bring clean water to local Haitian communities in desperate need by building and installing solar-powered water purification systems while helping residents start micro-businesses selling clean water to others.
CenterState Bank, StarterStudio and Embry-Riddle Partner to Support Local Business Entrepreneurs
Embry-Riddle Senior Vice President for Administration and Planning Rodney Cruise hosted officers of CenterState Bank and StarterStudio at the John Mica Engineering and Aerospace Innovation Complex (MicaPlex) at Embry-Riddle’s Research Park this past Thursday for a check presentation to support small local business entrepreneurs in central Florida and startup businesses at the MicaPlex.
CenterState Bank’s President Mike L. Sleaford, Vice President Mellissa Slover-Athey and Senior Vice President Phil Zeman presented a $50,000 check to Donna Mackenzie, Executive Director of StarterStudio, an Orlando-based nonprofit that is creating a robust entrepreneurial community for tech-enabled startups and other innovators that are fueling to Florida’s growing technology economy.
Sleaford said CenterState Bank has a history of serving small businesses by keeping decision-making local and addressing their immediate needs.
Upcoming Worldwide Graduation Ceremonies
In true Worldwide fashion, graduation ceremonies are held around the globe in order to accommodate as many students as possible. Students are welcome to participate in any of the following ceremonies. Attendance to any Embry-Riddle graduation event is free. Some ceremonies may require tickets due to the ceremony location.
For Graduating Students: Visit the Campus Solutions Student Center to apply for graduation, view your graduation status, or pay your graduation application fee. Visit the Alumni Website for information on alumni benefits, giving, events and more.
Professor Alan Liu Secures Highly Competitive NSF Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $670,000 grant to Embry-Riddle’s Dr. Alan Liu to install a special radar instrument at the Andes LIDAR Observatory in Cerro Pachón, Chile. The funding is a highly competitive Major Research Instrumentation award.
The new instrument, designed to detect meteors in the region, will replace an aging radar now in place, said Liu, professor of Engineering Physics, who played a founding role in establishing the Andes LIDAR Observatory.
An upper atmosphere observatory, the mountaintop facility houses several optical remote-sensing instruments. These include one that uses laser pulses, or LIDAR (light detection and ranging), to measure wind and temperature beyond 80 kilometers in altitude as well as special cameras that pick up energetic molecules called “airglow.” Leveraging such instruments to better understand atmospheric perturbations – such as those caused by thunderstorms and mountains – is critical to improving global circulation models, space weather prediction and global satellite navigation systems, Liu noted.
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Expanding the Aviation Workforce: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Names Inaugural Cohort of Boeing Scholars
Twenty-two highly accomplished students will receive generous scholarships as part of a strategic effort to expand and diversify the aviation workforce, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and The Boeing Company announced today at the Paris Air Show.
Global Aerospace Communications Leader Arralis to Join Embry-Riddle Research Park
Enterprise Florida, Team Volusia, Space Florida, Volusia County and the City of Daytona Beach Collaborate to Bring New High-Paying Jobs to Central Florida
What’s it Like to Work for SpaceX? Alumnus Kyle Williams Tells All
As a child, Kyle P. Williams (’16), of Massapequa, N.Y., loved Lego, working on cars and any other activity that allowed him to work with his hands. Now, working at SpaceX, he’s transformed his childhood hobby into the career of a lifetime.
It’s an exciting time to be working at SpaceX. Last month marked the long-awaited launch of the company’s Starlink project, when the company sent the first 60 of 12,000 planned satellites into orbit as an alternative means of providing high-speed internet to users on Earth. The project is a first of its kind, according to Mechanical Engineering professor Dr. Sathya Gangadharan — but missions of this size would never succeed, he said, without the help of Embry-Riddle alumni.
“SpaceX is pushing the forefront of exploring new worlds and new technology,” Williams said. “We are a groundbreaking company. We do things that people think are impossible.”
Embry-Riddle Students Design Camera Mount for International Space Station
A team of seven Aerospace Engineering students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus has designed and produced a camera attachment system for the International Space Station (ISS), and were selected to participate in NASA’s Micro-G NExT challenge in Houston, TX in early June. Project CAM (Camera Attachment Mechanism) was devised by the student team to assist astronauts venturing into the vacuum of space by providing additional camera coverage during Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA) beyond standard helmet camera attachments, which provide limited views of EVA to mission control.
Prof. Jeremy Ernst Leads Major NSF Project to Help Engineering Students Succeed
Helping more students succeed in becoming professional engineers is the goal of a $599,485 research project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and headed up at Embry-Riddle’s Worldwide Campus by Dr. Jeremy V. Ernst.
The multi-university project aims to transform rote, lecture-style educational approaches to actively engage first-year engineering students in learning. Using an “active performance-based learning” or APL framework originally developed for an engineering graphics design course at North Carolina State University, researchers will fine-tune and scale up the content. Ultimately, Ernst and his colleagues hope to share the curriculum with many other institutions across the country.
Meet the New Director of Campus Safety & Security
Jackie Litzinger is the Daytona Beach Campus’s new Director of Safety & Security. She was appointed in March following the retirement of Kevin Mannix.