Speedway Project Promises Insights Into Heart Disease, Space Travel, More
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, killing an estimated 17.9 million people each year. To combat this trend, researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University…
Posted In: Applied Science | Human Factors | Research | Space
When Your Supernova’s a Dud: Rare Binary Star Features Weirdly Round Orbit, Embry-Riddle Researchers Report
After crunching a mountain of astronomy data, Clarissa Pavao, an undergraduate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Arizona, campus, submitted her preliminary analysis.…
Simulated Space Mission Inspires New Thinking
Watching your payload shatter as it hits the ground at 50 mph would be disheartening to most, but to the members of a unique Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University club, failure is just…
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Intuitive Machines and Columbia Sportswear Launch New Scholarship Program at Embry-Riddle
Taylor M. Yow set her career path in high school. More than anything, she wanted to become an engineer, working on spacecraft and orbital calculations. She didn’t realize just…
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Award-Winning Senior Researcher Finds Inspiration in Struggle
Andres Munevar, a Civil Engineering senior at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, had a fairly ordinary childhood: grew up in a suburb, went to public school. But as a first-generation…
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Eagle Undergrad Joins National Effort To Advance Sustainable Construction of Earthquake-Resilient Buildings
Megan Butcher was in her sophomore year at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, in a solid mechanics class, when a professor asked her to join in research predicting the dynamic response…
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Embry-Riddle Student Team Developing Low-Cost Recoverable Rocket
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students are designing a rocket that can soar through the Earth’s atmosphere and reach outer space, only to be recovered through a parachute…
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Award-Winning Volusia County Startup Novineer Takes 3D Printing to the Next Level
A game-changing idea born at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University promises faster, more environmentally benign production of lightweight, high-quality aircraft and rocket parts, biomedical…
National Science Foundation Backs Eagle Research To Enable 'Smart' 3D Manufacturing
Three Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University researchers, led by Dr. Daewon Kim, professor of Aerospace Engineering, have been awarded a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to…
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Machine Learning of Binary ‘Yes/No’ Systems May Improve Medical Diagnoses, Financial Risk Analysis, More
Similar to a mouse racing through a maze, making “yes” or “no” decisions at every intersection, researchers have developed a way for machines to swiftly learn…
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Eagles Earn Federal Funding To Bolster Data Science Education
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University recently joined a national effort to meet the growing need for undergraduate education in data science, receiving $970,800 from the National Science…
Posted In: Computers and Technology | Research
Liftoff! Student-Made Rocket Fuel Successfully Tested at Embry-Riddle
It was a moment 11 years in the making — back when the Project Prometheus initiative launched in 2011 with the goal of making functional solid rocket fuel at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical…
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Embry-Riddle Astronomer Helps Analyze Stunning New Stardust Image
Just as a rock thrown into a pond creates an undulating pattern of circular ripples, some double star systems called binaries can push rings of dust into space as one star orbits around…
Eagle-Designed Space Drones Target In-Orbit Construction
What if vehicles could be assembled in space without human supervision? What if autonomous spacecraft could conduct routine maintenance and inspections on satellites, while flying in…
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Student Research on Bird-Aircraft Collisions Draws Regulators’ Interest
When an airplane and a bird collide, the situation can quickly turn into a crisis, even yielding deadly consequences.
That explains why three student presentations — two of which…
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