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Viability and application of mounting personal PID VOC sensors to small unmanned aircraft systems

  • PI Cheri Marcham

    CO-I Scott Burgess

    CO-I Patti Clark

    CO-I Joseph Cerreta

  • ​This project evaluated the feasibility of using small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) equipped with commercial photoionization detectors to remotely detect and characterize airborne volatile organic compounds. Internal ERAU College of Aviation funding supported interdisciplinary field testing, student involvement, and dissemination through national conferences and a peer-reviewed journal publication.
Virtual Communities of Practice: Scaling, Belonging, and Effective Feedback

  • PI Cristina Cottom

    CO-I Angela Atwell

    CO-I Lisa Martino

    CO-I Sara Ombres

  • The purpose of this research study is to extend CTLE-W's previous research on virtual faculty learning communities (VCoP) by testing a new VCoP for scalability with an expanded participation pool. This study also seeks to increase the sense of belonging among non-collocated faculty participants and to use the VCoP to provide continuing education on effective feedback practices.This VCoP and the research study will last for 8 weeks during the fall and spring. As part of the participation in the VCoP faculty will complete several online asynchronous activities using VoiceThread to discuss effective feedback practices, as well as a survey at the beginning and end of their VCoP experience. 

Virtual Community of Practice for Globally Dispersed Online Adjunct Faculty

  • PI Sara Ombres

    PI Cristina Cottom

    CO-I Lisa Martino

    CO-I Angela Atwell

  • This research study seeks to determine if participation in a virtual community of practice (VCoP) increases online adjunct faculty members’ sense of belonging within the university. This VCoP and the research study will last for 8 weeks. As part of the participation in the VCoP online adjunct faculty will complete several online asynchronous activities, as well as a survey at the beginning and end of their VCoP experience. 

Virtual Flight Demonstration of Stratospheric Dual-Aircraft Platform

  • PI William Engblom

    CO-I William Barott

    CO-I Hever Moncayo

  • The primary objective of the two-phase effort is to culminate with a proof-of-concept flight demonstration of a quarter-scale, low-altitude version of a Dual-Aircraft Platform (DAP).  The platform is to sail back-and-forth without propulsion above a restricted area using the persistent wind shear created by an onshore ocean breeze. 
Vision and Wireless-Based Surveying for Intelligent OSAM Navigation (VISION)

  • PI Hever Moncayo

    CO-I Kadriye Merve Dogan

  • ​In this project, which is a SpaceWERX Phase I STTR program with Orbital Prime, we are developing algorithms to increase autonomy of OSAM applications. 
Visual Guidance Remote Airport Lighting Systems

  • PI Christopher Grant

    CO-I Jianhua Liu

    CO-I Stuart Campbell

  • This project aims at developing low-cost/low-power lighting systems that can be deployed at remote airports. Lighting at rural airports is much needed as they give communities they serve a transportation link during time-critical situations such as emergency medical services.

Volusia County Transportation Challenge: A Commentary Report on Volusia County's Long Range Transportation Plan

  • PI Ahmed Abdelghany

  • The objective of this project is to evaluate the long-term (5-10 years) transportation plan of Volusia county.
Vortices

  • PI Ciprian Mancas

  • Utilizing a rotational actuator with a paddle in a water tank, the velocity and vortices fields of vortex rings are obtained. For a wide range of paddles, and angular velocities, formation of ring vortices that travel in the tank with constant energy will be analyzed. The vortex ring propagation is useful for sending information across an optical fiber for long distances.
Vulnerability Analysis of the Environment, Facilities, and Personnel of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to Extreme Weather Events and Climatic Anomalies Resulting from Global Climate Change

  • PI John Lanicci

  • The major goal of this research project is to conduct a vulnerability analysis of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Complex's natural and physical environments to the potential occurrence frequencies of extreme weather events and climatic anomalies that can be expected under various global climate-change scenarios.
Vulnerability of the Kennedy Space Center to Climate Change

  • PI Jennifer Thropp

    CO-I Guy Smith

  • My particular role in this research project is to contribute to the mapping and analysis of damage incurred by Kennedy Space Center (KSC) by the atypically active 2004 hurricane season, in which multiple hurricanes impacted spaceflight operations at KSC and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS).

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Wake Vortex Safety Analysis in the Context of UAS Integration in the NAS

  • PI Vladimir Golubev

  • ​This project is a collaboration with several research organizations under the supervision of FAA. The focus  of the current research efforts is on developing and employing variable-fidelity prediction approaches to examine safety implications of the future integration of variable-size UAS systems in the National Aerospace System (UAS). 

Water Waves 3D

  • PI Shahrdad Sajjadi

    CO-I David Ross

    CO-I Ciprian Mancas

  • Following advances in two-dimensional water waves, we began to study three-dimensional effects in propagating water waves, where the dependence upon the second horizontal dimension is force by boundary or initial conditions. We study the effects of nonlinearity on the interaction of two equal but non-parallel wave trains or the reflection of an obliquely incident wave train (studied extensively by Sajjadi and Ross).