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A tool for alleviating pilot shortage: Recruitment of women and minorities into aviation

  • PI Rosalee Opengart

  • A global shortfall has been predicted to continue for pilots and aviation professionals, through at least 2030. One way to elevate the recruitment as well as retention of pilots in order to alleviate this problem is to increase the percentages of underrepresented communities, including women. The purpose of this research is to investigate the experience of female pilots and how to decrease the predicted shortage of pilots and aviation professionals by increasing the percentage of women and minorities.
Academic Innovation Research Fellowship Grant: Scaling Up the Academic Integrity Vaccine Toolkit

  • PI Michael Wills

  • Empirical evaluation of class design techniques that empower students to take creative, active, agile ownership of their learning, thus auto‐immunizing against accidental or deliberate academic integrity issues; scalable as a toolkit by other instructors in other disciplines across ERAU
Aviation Management Information Systems
  • This research project is concerned with airline information systems. This research effort will be the first to examine airline information systems from a management information system perspective and provide a complete picture of how these inter-related systems work together to achieve operational effectiveness and efficiency.

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Best practices in teaching statistics and research methods within an aviation curriculum

  • PI Robert Walton

  • Student learning assessment is necessary at most universities, the question is whether or not student learning assessment though the use of tests can be turned into a less anxiety-provoking experience and, most ideally, into a summative learning experience for students. Using a three-test format student assessment this research examined an alternate testing paradigm, aiming directly at anxiety associated with tests and grades.

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Characterizing Faculty Discourses on Gender in Engineering Education for Effective Interventions

  • PI Kacey Beddoes

    CO-I Wendi Kappers

  • The low numbers of women in engineering remains a concern, and prior research on students’ experiences demonstrates that classroom experiences and interactions with other students and faculty disproportionately cause negative experiences for female and other minority students and lead to attrition from engineering programs. For a variety of reasons, teamwork is one component of engineering education frequently experienced differently by women and other minority students than by male students. Given that teamwork is of central and increasing importance, it is vital that faculty members understand how to maximize gender inclusivity of their teamwork components. Special sessions, publications, and faculty training tools are just some of the expected outcomes of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. 

Complex Adaptive Leadership

  • PI Kees Rietsema

    CO-I Daryl Watkins

    CO-I Robert Materna

    CO-I Edward Knab

    CO-I Matthew Earnhardt

    CO-I Linda Pittenger

    CO-I Michael Santonino

  • The goal of this research project is to develop the theoretical underpinnings for a practical and executable model of Complex Adaptive Leadership grounded in theory. We will continue to conduct research within aviation and aerospace firms as well as the military to determine the strength of the relationships between Complex Adaptive Leadership competencies and superior performance in today's increasingly complex environment.
Cyber hygiene and cyber insurance current practice research

  • PI Wendi Kappers

    CO-I Aaron Glassman

    CO-I Michael Wills

  • Identify the market uptake and applicability of cyber hygiene models, particularly within small to medium enterprises, and relate this to current market practices in the use of cyber insurance policies and mechanisms as part of risk mitigation and management.

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Developing and Managing 21st Century Aerospace Cluster

  • CO-I Robert Walton

    CO-I Constantine Koursaris

  • The project team will collect, analyze, document and report information on best-practices and lessons learned in managing aerospace clusters in the United States, Europe, Japan, Brazil, and other countries for the purpose of making America's aerospace clusters more competitive.

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Experimental Academics in Action at ERAU (EAA-at-ERAU)

  • PI Michael Wills

  • EAA@ERAU: IMAGINE an Experimental Academic Approach that puts academic experimentation into action in ways that attract and engage both existing students AND prospective students, students who want to join us in blazing a new trail, finding a new way to look at a tried-and-true topic.

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Green Supply Chains

  • PI Aman Gupta

    CO-I Mohammed Arif

  • This research attempts to create a model for assessment of green supply chains for the aviation and aerospace manufacturing industry. We have developed a model using review of the existing literature. We have identified 19 drivers, 14 barriers, green supply chain practices in the areas including, purchasing, design, production, management, logistics, and marketing, and multiple firm's performance measures. Green drivers, barriers, green supply chain practices and firm performance measures' interactions are examined

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Heuristic Approach for the Vendor Managed Inventory Problem

  • PI Soumia Ichoua

  • In this project, we consider the Vendor Managed Inventory Problem. We propose a rolling horizon approach where a schedule is repeatedly constructed over a fixed number of time periods using a tabu search heuristic.
How does Sarah McLachlan make me donate to the SPCA? Emotional Intelligence and Emotionally Laden Persuasive Appeals

  • PI Rosalee Opengart

  • This research examines the notion that a person's level of emotional intelligence serves to mediate the effect of social influence on the consumer. The purpose of this study is to examine whether emotional intelligence may mediate the impact of persuasive attempts in consumer decision- making.