Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has received a $485,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to help meet growing job demand in the aviation and aerospace industries by providing free training for high school students hoping to become pilots, drone operators and aerospace engineers.
The Boeing Company has provided Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a $5.1 million donation for a research center that will drive safety improvements throughout the industry.
In Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Spatial Disorientation Laboratory, flight student Nella Filipkova wears a virtual reality headset as the device she is seated in rapidly whirls around.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University recently added an additional two instances of ASTi’s Simulated Environment for Realistic ATC product to its facility.
Philanthropists Cici and Hyatt Brown have pledged $25 million to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to help create a new business makerspace focused on high-paying jobs for Floridians.