Robotics Students Win Gold at National Autonomous Boat Competition
Engineering students on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Maritime RobotX Team brought home a first-place award last week, winning the top prize in the Hardware and Systems…
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Gaming Students Develop Augmented-Reality Flight Training Tool
A team of Simulation Science, Games and Animation (SSGA) students got to work this summer developing augmented-reality (AR) holograms that will eventually play a part in training the…
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Eagles Use VR to Train Next Generation of Naval Midshipmen
Researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are designing a simulator to train Navy ROTC students, or midshipmen, in how to identify cybersecurity threats. To accomplish this…
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‘Rotating’ Memories Can Improve Machine Learning, Embry-Riddle Researchers Say
Advances in artificial intelligence, or AI, could someday help machines perform tasks typically assigned to humans such as weeding through thousands of aircraft identification signals…
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Eagle Researchers Work to Improve Drone Awareness for Airspace and Aircraft Security
With more and more drones in flight each year and more and more sightings of drones intruding into airspace occupied by manned aircraft, a team of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University…
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Honeywell, Embry-Riddle Partner to Produce Air Taxi Innovators
As Honeywell partners with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to design air taxis and help shape the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) industry, students are benefitting from hands-on research…
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Machine Capable of 3D Printing Nanoscale Objects to Revolutionize Embry-Riddle Research
Fabricating objects from their smallest components up is the work of nanoscale 3D printers, traditionally rare devices for scientists to acquire given their cost and sophistication.…
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Eagles Place in Top 4% of International Simulation Competition
In their first time ever participating in the bi-annual Simio (Simulation Modeling framework based on Intelligent Objects) Competition, three teams from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University…
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Aspiring Aviators Recreate Airport in Minecraft, Win Big at FAA Design Competition
As part of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Gaetz Aerospace Institute, students from Boynton Beach Community High School recreated the Boca Raton Airport in Minecraft, a…
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Virtual Training Expands Learning Opportunities for Embry-Riddle Students
New extended-reality applications — allowing simulations of procedures from replacing an airplane carburetor, to performing a pre-flight engine check — are coming online…
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Students Collaborate on Inventions that Support Industry, Hands-On Learning
As the world marvels at systems that allow self-driving cars to detect obstacles, lane markings and traffic signals, the researchers designing such technology are engaged in an ongoing…
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Eagles Mobilize to Discourage Use of Crowdsourced Study Websites for Cheating
In an effort to combat plagiarism and maintain the academic rigor and integrity of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s course offerings, a team of Eagles has developed software…
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EcoCAR Team Adapts to Pandemic, Brings Home Top Finish
Year two of the four-year EcoCAR Mobility Challenge took an unexpected turn this year when the Covid-19 pandemic forced the suspension of in-person work around spring break. Soon enough,…
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New Virtual Reality Flight Simulator Offers Glimpse of Future Training Tool
As the developer of a virtual reality (VR) air-to-air combat simulator, College of Aeronautics assistant professor David Thirtyacre has extensive knowledge of the enormous potential,…
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Embry-Riddle Students Fabricate Thousands of Face Shields and More for Area Hospitals
Teams at both of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., are fabricating high-quality masks and face shields to…
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