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NEWS & NOTES
FROM THE WORLD
OF EMBRY-RIDDLE
C H ATTE R
An actress/reporter
discusses the progress
of construction at
‘Starship City.’
National Exposure
A LT I M E T E R :
H I G H P O I N T S AT
E M B R Y- R I D D L E
For the 13th consecutive year,
the annual “Best Colleges”
guide published by U.S. News
and World Report ranked
Embry-Riddle’s undergraduate
aerospace engineering program No. 1 in the nation.
The men’s and women’s
soccer teams at the Prescott
Campus—first-year rookies in the California Pacific
Conference—both won 2012
Cal Pac Championships.
Under an agreement with the
Canaveral Council of Technical
Societies, Embry-Riddle will
digitize and catalog a unique
archive of space-focused
technical papers from more
than 40 years of annual Florida
Space Congress conferences
dating back to 1966.
Daytona Beach Campus cast
as ‘Starship City, USA’
E
mbry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus provides the
setting for Starship City, USA—and its students,
faculty and staff serve as extras—in National
Geographic channel’s Evacuate Earth, which aired
nationally in December. The speculative science
program portrays a neutron star explosion that
threatens life on Earth, and explores the possibility of
creating a giant spacecraft to save the human race.
Produced by Atlas Media, the show highlights
Embry-Riddle laboratories and campus landmarks, such
as the Jim Henderson Administration and Welcome
Center, which was under construction at the time (pictured above).
Jason Kring, assistant professor of human factors and
systems, is featured as an expert source throughout the
two-hour special. According to Kring, the show’s general
premise is sound. “If we detected a stellar remnant on
a collision course with Earth and we had 50 to 100 years
to plan, it’s likely we could build a vessel that could save
a percentage of the population, he says.
”
The show generates a sense of urgency for continued
space exploration, Kring notes. “As they say, ‘Necessity
is the mother of invention.’”
PARTNERSHIP CREATES ONE-STOP SHOP FOR RESEARCH
Embry-Riddle and Advanced Aerospace Solutions (AdvAero) have taken a longstanding relationship to the next level with the signing of a partnership agreement
in October.
Embry-Riddle President and CEO John P. Johnson says the collaboration
represents a milestone for Embry-Riddle in attracting high-tech, high-profile
John
companies to work with the university and help grow its developing aerospace
Maris
research and technology park, located adjacent to the Daytona Beach Campus.
“What we are doing here is bringing together the best of both of our sets of capabilities in order
to provide a unique, one-stop shop for aerospace and defense companies who need to realize
their aerospace ideas and products on-time and within budget,” says John Maris (‘83, DB), CEO of
Marinvent Corporation, a founding partner of AdvAero.
AdvAero has committed its Flying Avionics Test Bed and Research Simulator to the venture.
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Representatives of 14 major
U.S. airlines and regional carriers
joined Embry-Riddle faculty and
staff for a one-day Pilot Supply
Summit on Nov. 8 at the Daytona
Beach Campus.
“The need for qualified pilots in
sufficient numbers has never been
greater in this country, says Cape
”
Air President and Chief Operating
Officer Dave Bushy.
Recent reports, including one
by Boeing, forecast nearly 460,000
pilots and more than 600,000
aircraft maintenance technicians
will be needed globally during the next
20 years. In the
meantime, Congress
has mandated more
stringent standards for
pilots; namely, that first officers will
hold an Airline Transport Pilot certificate, which requires 1,500 hours
of flight time, as opposed to the
current requirement—a commercial pilot certificate that requires
only 250 flight hours. The proposed
rule has yet to be finalized by the
Federal Aviation Administration.
“The new rules regarding
first officer qualifications make it
imperative that Embry-Riddle, as
the leader in professional pilot education, join the leaders of the airline
industry in finding joint solutions
to the pilot supply problem, says
”
Tim Brady, dean of Embry-Riddle’s
College of Aviation at the Daytona
Beach Campus.
According to Brady, EmbryRiddle is part of a stakeholders
group that is pursuing all means
to mitigate the impending pilot
shortage. Members of the group
recently traveled to Washington
D.C. to meet with the Government
Accountability Office (GAO) and
with representatives of the Aviation
Subcommittee of the U.S. House
of Representatives. “We’ve asked
the GAO to conduct a study to
determine the dimensions of the
problem and to suggest some
solutions, Brady says.
”
PHOTO COURTESY OF ATLAS MEDIA
Airlines, Embry-Riddle
Examine Projected
Pilot Shortage
http://www.ERAUALUMNI.ORG
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