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Eagle Spotlight: Meet Your 2021 Brooke Owens Fellows
Two Embry-Riddle students, Zoe Brand and Katrina “Kat” Ternus, have been awarded prestigious Brooke Owens Fellowships, joining 42 other talented undergraduates who were…
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It’s Electric! Four Years of Work Culminates in Aircraft Milestone
After nearly four years of perseverance, the Eagle Flight Research Center (EFRC) team at Embry-Riddle is celebrating a milestone in its electric propulsion research: its Diamond HK-36…
Posted In: Aviation | Engineering | Research
Eagle Researchers Receive FAA Grants to Assure Drone Safety
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University researchers received four Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants this month to assess risks and help develop safety protocols for unmanned…
Posted In: Aviation | Engineering | Research | Unmanned Systems
Rising Above Sickle Cell Anemia, Student Pursues Energy Innovations
Eagle senior Raymond Miller is not defined by his disease.
For years, he would avoid sharing information about his experience with sickle cell anemia with others, for fear that it would…
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Eagle Fights for Equality through Engineering
Embry-Riddle Aerospace Engineering senior Maverick Thigpen believes in progress. As president of the Prescott Campus National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), that’s the goal…
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Robotics Students Show Off Latest Autonomous Boat at Drone Demonstration
In lieu of attending the biennial Maritime RobotX Challenge, which was set to take place in Honolulu this past December but was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Engineering students…
Posted In: Engineering | Unmanned Systems
Traffic as Viral Outbreak Predictor: Eagle Researchers Set Sights on New Metric
Embry-Riddle researchers are taking a novel approach to predicting outbreaks of the Covid-19 virus: developing models of traffic volume compared to viral activity in different regions…
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Embry-Riddle Researchers Collaborate to Save Lives of Children with Heart Defects
In a collaboration with the University of Central Florida and the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University professor of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Eduardo…
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Master’s Students Leverage Big Data, Optical Fiber Sensors to Enhance Transportation Safety
Keeping roads and bridges safe while spending taxpayer money wisely is a complicated balancing act that two Civil Engineering graduate students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University…
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Eagles Win Fellowships to Make Evacuations Safer, Faster
In the summer of 2018, Embry-Riddle undergraduate Fanny Kristiansson watched as wildfires threatening her native city of Stockholm burned as far north as the Arctic Circle. It wasn’t…
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Embry-Riddle Rocketeers Appear on Discovery’s ‘Rocket Around the Xmas Tree’
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Engineering students Max Kauker and Alex Moreno recently appeared in front of a national audience on Discovery’s “Rocket Around the…
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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…
Posted In: Applied Science | Computers and Technology | Engineering | Institutional News | Research
VerdeGo Aero, Embry-Riddle Team Up to Mitigate Electric Aircraft Noise
A team comprised of researchers from Embry-Riddle and hybrid-electric aerospace powertrain firm VerdeGo Aero is working to make electric aircraft quieter — without sacrificing…
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Eagle Alumna Wins NASA Trailblazer Award for Work on Manned Rocket Mission
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumna Nathalie Quintero ('15) was one of two early-career systems engineers at The Boeing Company to earn NASA’s Space Flight Awareness Trailblazer…
Posted In: Engineering | Space
Naval Program Leverages Unmanned Systems to Set Eagles Up for Success
Research funded by the Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC) to provide technology in coordinating aerial, surface and underwater unmanned systems for the U.S. Navy is helping…
Posted In: Engineering | Research | Unmanned Systems