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Development of a Dynamic Soaring Capable UAV Using Reinforcement Learning
Development of a Safety Performance Decision-Making Tool for Flight Training Organization

  • PI Marisa Aguiar

    CO-I Carolina Anderson

  • Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 141 flight training organizations are actively pursuing ways to increase operational safety by introducing advanced risk assessment and decision-making techniques. The purpose of the dissertation was to create and validate a safety performance decision-making tool to transform a reactive safety model into a predictive, safety performance decision-making tool, specific to large, collegiate Title 14 CFR Part 141 flight training organizations, to increase safety and aid in operational decision-making. The validated safety decision-making tool uses what-if scenarios to assess how changes to the controllable input variables impact the overall level of operational risk within an organization’s flight department.

Development of an Aviation Weather Database Highlighting Weather Encounters

  • PI Massoud Bazargan

  • The project team, which includes the FAA's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, Clemson University, and ݮƵ, interviewed 26 General Aviation (GA) pilots over a 25-month period.
Development of an SE(3)-based Rigid Body Pose Estimation Scheme for Unknown Moments of Inertia in a Spacecraft
  • The objective of this proposal is the development of an SE(3)-based rigid body pose estimation scheme for unknown moments of inertia in a spacecraft. This estimator design will a) account for translation/rotation coupling, b) avoid singularity or non-uniqueness issues, c) gain high level of convergence, and d)account for system uncertainties.
Diagnosing Kinematic Processes Responsible for Precipitation Distributions in Hurricanes

  • PI Joshua Wadler

  • This project studies physical processes behind why the spatial distribution of different types of precipitation are related to hurricane intensity change.
Discontinuity-driven mesh adaptation method for hyperbolic conservation laws

  • PI Mihhail Berezovski

  • ​The proposed project is aimed at developing a highly accurate, efficient, and robust one-dimensional adaptive-mesh computational method for simulation of the propagation of discontinuities in solids. The principal part of this research is focused on the development of a new mesh adaptation technique and an accurate discontinuity tracking algorithm that will enhance the accuracy and efficiency of computations. The main idea is to combine the flexibility afforded by a dynamically moving mesh with the increased accuracy and efficiency of a discontinuity tracking algorithm, while preserving the stability of the scheme.
Dynamical Systems

  • PI Romeo Thomas

  • Specific interests include topological entropy and shadowing properties. My field of interest is “Smooth Dynamical Systems” (Phenomenon that changes with time). In order to study the “Dynamical Systems” we need to study the "Topological Entropy" and "Shadowing Properties". 

Dynamics in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere over the Andes Lidar Observatory

  • PI Alan Liu

  • This project is a collaborative multi-instrument investigation of the dynamics in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) over the Andes Lidar Observatory (ALO) in Cerro Pachón, Chile.

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Eaglet: Writing Center and Tutoring Program

  • CO-I Wendi Kappers

  • The purpose of this research is to develop and implement a fully functioning writing center for the Embry-Riddle Worldwide student body. The program will consist of a tutoring service to aid students with grammatically correct writing, forming coherent arguments, and properly addressing the specific objectives of the paper.
EagleVision Classroom (EVC) Best Practices

  • CO-I Wendi Kappers

  • To improve the quality of EVC instruction, an evaluation was initiated of the modality to further investigate the sources of negative feedback and comments; and to identify strategies and best practices gathered from recent EVC faculty and students suggesting improvements needed in the EVC modality.
East Central Florida Extreme Weather Events
  • I've analyzed the synoptic and sub-synoptic aspects of the 25 December 2006 tornado outbreak in central Florida that resulted in $50 million of damage to the Embry-Riddle campus. I've examined this case from conventional meteorological and emergency-preparedness perspectives.
E-cigarette nicotine deposition and persistence on glass and cotton surfaces

  • PI Cheri Marcham

    CO-I Beverly Wood

    CO-I Evan Floyd

    CO-I Susan Arnold

  • This study examined whether nicotine from electronic cigarette aerosols deposits on indoor surfaces and how long it persists. Using controlled chamber experiments, the research demonstrated that nicotine readily deposits on both glass and cotton surfaces and remains detectable for several days, with substantially longer persistence on cotton materials, indicating potential for thirdhand nicotine exposure.