Elon Musk has conquered the Internet, renewable energy and outer space. On Aug. 12, 2013, he set his sight on high-speed transportation. Nova Track, a team of Prescott Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students, has signed up to help Musk make that a reality, thanks in part to a recent $2,500 Eagle Prize from the Undergraduate Research Institute (URI). Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is sponsoring a competition to design and build a 14-foot half-scale Hyperloop pod to … [Read more...] about Engineers Pushing Limits in SpaceX Hyperloop Competition
Bryan Dougherty
Students Working to Crack Cold Cases
An envelope sits on the table waiting to be opened. It’s here – the first cold case to be worked by the new American Investigative Society of Cold Cases (AISOCC) University Chapter on the Prescott campus. Fifteen students have 90 days to solve the case using forensic and advanced investigation techniques learned from class and from Security and Intelligence professor, chapter advisor and AISSOC member Dr. J. Michael Bozeman. It just became real. Cold cases are unsolved crimes involving … [Read more...] about Students Working to Crack Cold Cases
ERAU: Enhancing Cyber-Security Education
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott and BeyondTrust, a Phoenix-based cyber security company dedicated to proactively eliminating data breaches from insider privilege abuse and external hacking attacks, have joined forces to enhance the education and training of future cyber security professionals. BeyondTrust will provide Embry-Riddle’s College of Security and Intelligence (CSI) with hundreds of hours of videos, covering a wide range of cyber security issues such as firewalls, malware … [Read more...] about ERAU: Enhancing Cyber-Security Education
Embry-Riddle Commits to Diversity Initiative
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University joined more than 100 institutes of higher learning in a nationwide action plan to increase diversity in engineering education and professions announced the White House’s inaugural Demo Day. Embry-Riddle Prescott Campus Dean Ron Madler and College of Engineering Dean Maj Mirmirani of the Daytona Beach, Florida campus included their signatures on the letter from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) committing the university to build a … [Read more...] about Embry-Riddle Commits to Diversity Initiative
Balloon Camp Welcomes Future Engineers
Sixteen high schoolers from various parts of the country attended the Prescott Summer Programs’ Balloon Camp, the most popular of the campus's four engineering summer camps, and participated in a weather balloon launch. “It’s very hands-on," said Kori Skurja, Prescott Summer Programs coordinator, of the camp, explaining that the students design and build their payloads before launching them into the sky via balloon. The balloons are expected to travel 80,000 to 90,000 feet into the … [Read more...] about Balloon Camp Welcomes Future Engineers