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'''Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University''' (ERAU) is an independent, non-sectarian, non-profit, coeducational [[university]] with a history dating back to the early days of aviation. The university serves culturally diverse students primarily motivated toward careers in aviation and aerospace. Residential campuses in [[Daytona Beach, Florida]] and [[Prescott, Arizona]] provide education in a traditional setting, while an extended campus with over 130 centers throughout the [[United States]] and abroad serves civilian and military working adults. |
'''Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Is The Best''' (ERAU) is an independent, non-sectarian, non-profit, coeducational [[university]] with a history dating back to the early days of aviation. The university serves culturally diverse students primarily motivated toward careers in aviation and aerospace. Residential campuses in [[Daytona Beach, Florida]] and [[Prescott, Arizona]] provide education in a traditional setting, while an extended campus with over 130 centers throughout the [[United States]] and abroad serves civilian and military working adults. |
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Revision as of 17:15, 16 October 2006
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Is The Best (ERAU) is an independent, non-sectarian, non-profit, coeducational university with a history dating back to the early days of aviation. The university serves culturally diverse students primarily motivated toward careers in aviation and aerospace. Residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida and Prescott, Arizona provide education in a traditional setting, while an extended campus with over 130 centers throughout the United States and abroad serves civilian and military working adults.
History
Embry-Riddle, founded 22 years after the flight of the Wright Brothers, was at first purely a flight school tasked with pilot training and nothing more. Embry-Riddle gained university status in 1970, following a steady expansion of its flying programs.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks investigators thought that the school may have trained at least one of the aircraft hijackers. However, after a short investigation, ERAU was fully exonerated from any involvement in the flight training of the terrorists. Although a former student shared the same name as one of the hijackers, that former student was still alive and had no connections to Al-Qaeda.
Available degrees
The Daytona Beach and Prescott campuses offer undergraduate degrees in:
- Aeronautical Science
- Aviation Maintenance Science
- Aeronautics
- Aerospace Electronics
- Aerospace Engineering
- Aerospace Studies
- Air Traffic Management
- Applied Meteorology
- Aviation Business Administration
- Aviation Management
- Civil Engineering
- Communication
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Physics
- Global Security and Intelligence Studies
- Human Factors/Psychology
- Mechanical Engineering
- Safety Science
- Science, Technology, and Globalization
- Software Engineering
- Space Physics
The Daytona Campus also offers a Master of Science in Space Science. The Prescott Campus also offers a Master of Science in Safety Science.
Daytona Beach, Florida Campus
This 178 acre (720,000 m²) campus is centered around the John Paul Riddle Student Center. To facilitate the flight program, the campus is connected to the Daytona Beach International Airport (ICAO Code: KDAB). Engineering classes and facilities (such as the Thermojet solid model printer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, 128-node Beowulf cluster and wind tunnels) are concentrated in the Lehman Engineering and Technology Center, built in 1990 to facilitate hands-on training in various engineering practices. There are well over 180 software titles available to faculty and students including CATIA, Nastran, Pro/ENGINEER, and Matlab.
The College of Aviation (COA) building provides a conducive learning environment for those in the aeronautical sciences as well as the air traffic, meteorology, safety, and dispatch programs. The COA building houses FAA testing facilities, a flight tutoring lab, Weather labs [1], Spatial disorientation simulator, Air safety lab, TRACON simulators, as well as the prominent control tower simulator.
Most degree-independent courses are held in the Lindbergh Center, a group of small hexagonal buildings with the designations A, B, C, E and W (for this reason it they are more commonly referred to as the "alphabet soup" by faculty and students). The Jack R. Hunt Memorial Library (JRHML) is the on campus library, notable for having the world's largest collection of NASA and NACA documents as well as a very extensive aviation media collection. NASA personnel have frequently consulted the JRHML for its highly comprehensive collection of NASA documents, most importantly, during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster investigation.
Food
Students may use a variety of ways to pay for food on campus. These include: Eagle Dollars, Riddle Bucks, Meal Plans, and Cash.
Campus eating facilities include: The Student Center Cafeteria, The Landing Strip, The Student Village "Ultimate Dining", Einstein Brother's Bagels, and Propellers.
- The Student Center Cafeteria is located in the center of campus and serves an assortment of meals, as well as sandwiches and breakfast foods. This cafeteria holds the largest number of students of all the eating facilities, and often doubles as a theater for campus movies, or a stage for campus events.
- The Landing Strip serves subs, chicken wings, and certain varieties of oriental food. While it is co-located with the Student Center Cafeteria, the Landing Strip's hours of operation are longer.
- The Student Village Cafeteria serves an array of buffet-style meals, sandwiches, and breakfast foods. It is located on the ground level in the Student Village.
- Propellers is generally regarded as the most remote eatery on campus. Nevertheless, the exceptional quality of burgers, wraps, and Caesar salads offered here attracts many students everyday.
Residences
Total student capacity is 1,928 students. The Fall 2006 Semester saw a large influx of new students in the amount of around 1400, 118% of Freshman housing capacity. Therefore, Freshmen have been housed in the Upperclassmen Residence halls. Also about 10 rooms in Adams Hall and 40 in Wood Hall now have three students per room. Students in triple occupancy will still be required to pay the full price for the two bedroom room, yet Housing is working to place these students in accommodating rooms as students in the other halls are either suspended, expelled, or drop. All Daytona Beach Residence Halls are currently fully wireless.
In July of 2006, ground was broken on the newest residence hall for the campus. This four-story structure will house freshmen and upperclassmen, and is slated to be completed in time for the fall 2007 semester. Current plans are to call this new hall the "Student Quadrangle".
Student Village
Over 1,000 students take up residence on-campus in the $29 million Student Village residence complex on the north edge of campus. Four residence halls as well as extensive food services are contained within this building. The Residential Network (ResNet[2]) technical support lab for student-owned computers is also located there. The residence halls in the
Doolittle Hall
Doolittle Hall, a concrete and cinder block building in the shape a "T", houses freshmen. Doolittle has a more classical living experience for Embry-Riddle freshmen. Freshmen are housed two to a room, with a common bathroom not adjoining their room. Four seperate rooms share this common bathroom. Due to its small windows and thick construction, Doolittle is also classified as a Category 4 hurricane shelter. There are volleyball courts on the northwest and southeast sides.
McKay Hall
McKay Hall houses all classes of students. Three freshmen or two upperclassmen students are assigned to each room. Each suite is composed of two rooms joined in a "common area." McKay is unique in that it is the only residence hall on campus that opens to the outside. At one time McKay Hall resembled an old roadside hotel, and while having undergone a recent facelift, is often the butt of jokes among the students that live there. This hall was infact built in such a fashion by the school in hopes that if the school could not afford to keep the building, it could be sold as a hotel, given its proximity to the Daytona Speedway and the Daytona Airport.
Student Body
ERAU's total Fall 2005 undergraduate enrollment at the Daytona Beach Campus was 4382, 17% of which were female. International students make up 8% of the Daytona Beach Campus's undergraduate enrollment. Aviation interests characterize most of the student body, though particularly among the Aerospace Engineering and Aeronautical Science majors, the latter of which are in the flight-training program.
Distinguished Programs
ERAU academics focuses upon aerospace and aviation, with its aerospace engineering program ranking number one in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings of aerospace engineering degree schools without aerospace engineering Ph.D. programs. Pilot training, aerospace engineering (enhanced by a close relationship with nearby NASA facilities), and more recently software engineering are among its strongest programs at Daytona Beach. In September, 2006, the University announced that a Ph.D. program for Aerospace Engineering would be added. The plan is set to have the program up and running by 2009. The United States Air Force currently contracts flight training by ERAU faculty. The school also has the second most extensive ROTC programs in the nation, following Texas A&M. The ROTC program frequently wins national competitions. A newer engineering physics program exists at ERAU Daytona Beach, which is currently the largest undergraduate engineering physics program in the country and the only one specializing in the aerospace environment. Classes are typically small, with even the lowest level freshman courses having 40 students at most.
Athletics
The Daytona Beach Campus sponsors 13 intercollegiate sports. The Eagles are members of the NAIA and compete in the Florida Sun Conference and NAIA Region XIV. They hosted the 2005 NAIA Men's Soccer Championships and will be hosting again in 2006. On October 2nd, 2006, Embry Riddle's athletic director, Steve Ridder, was named N.A.I.A. National Athletic Director of the Year.
Prescott, Arizona Campus
Embry-Riddle's second residential campus is in Prescott, Arizona. The 539-acre campus is located approximately 3 miles from Ernest A. Love Field, which also serves as Prescott's airport.
In Fall 2005, the Prescott Campus had 1,653 undergraduate students and 32 graduate students enrolled. The Prescott Campus has students from many states, as well as 25 different countries.
In the beginning of the 2005 Spring semester, the new Academic Complex opened. This facility houses offices for most of the faculty, in addition to a number of smaller classrooms, two lecture halls, and several computer labs. Other notable buildings include the King Engineering Center, where most of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering classes occur. There is also a Wind Tunnel Laboratory that is currently being expanded. For the Fall 2006 semester, the new Aerospace Experimentation and Fabrication Building (AXFAB) will open.
The Harlem Globetrotters spend two weeks at the school each year as part of their training program, and at the end of their stay they give a performance for the Prescott community in the Activity Center.
Food
There are three options for paying for food in Prescott: a meal plan, flexi-dollars, and cash.
The student cafeteria is commonly called Chartwells. There are several varieties of meal plans available, but all are served as an all-you-can-eat buffet. Meals can be paid for using cash, flexi-dollars, or a meal plan. In addition, students can also get food from the Hangar Cafe, located next to the dining hall. Only cash and flexi-dollars are accepted in the Hangar Cafe.
A Fry's grocery store is located a mile down Willow Creek Road from the campus.
Residences
There are three student residence areas on the Prescott Campus. All residence halls are co-ed due to the low percentage of females on campus, however roommates and suitemates are always of the same gender.
Thumb Butte
The Thumb Butte Complex features four single-story halls and is for freshmen who are participating in the Live, Learn, Lead (L^3) Program only. Two students share each room, and each room has its own bathroom. Each room also comes with a minifridge. There is a common lounge for each hall with a TV and a microwave.
Mingus Mountain
The Mingus Mountain Complex features five three-story halls arranged in 3 room suite configurations. Each suite contains three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a lounge. Two students share each bedroom, meaning that six people share each suite. Each room and lounge has a door that opens outside, as well as an interior door that opens to the rest of the suite. Each lounge comes with a microfridge (microwave and minifridge) unit.
Village
The Village Complex features five halls and is for upperclassmen only (with the exception of hall 7, in which incoming freshmen live if they are participating in the "Live, Learn, Lead," program). There are two different configurations for halls in the Village Complex:
- One configuration is two bedrooms with an adjoining bathroom. Each bedroom has a large closet area and a vanity with a sink
and comes with a minifridge. There is a common kitchen with a stove-top, oven, microwave, sink, and full-size fridge for each floor of students to share. There is also a common lounge on each floor with dry erase boards and game tables.
- The second configuration for halls in the Village is the apartment configuration. Each apartment contains two bedrooms, a bathroom,
a lounge, and a kitchen area. The kitchen in each room features a stove-top and microwave, as well as a full-size refrigerator and sink. There is a common kitchen for each floor of the hall which has an oven. There is also a common lounge for each floor.
Student body
ERAU's total Fall 2005 undergraduate enrollment at the Prescott Campus was 1,653 students 17% of which were female. International students make up 3% of the Prescott Campus's undergraduate enrollment. Aviation interests characterize most of the student body, though particularly among the Aerospace Engineering and Aeronautical Science majors, the latter of which are in the flight-training program.
Distinguished programs
The Prescott Campus has the only Global Security and Intelligence Studies program in the country. This degree program focuses on important global issues such as terrorism, information warfare, transportation security, illicit trafficking networks, corporate security, population dislocations, natural disasters, widespread epidemics, international crime, and homeland security. The Prescott Campus also offers a Master's degree program in Safety Science, with a Bachelor's degree being offered beginning in Fall 2006. Classes are typically small, with even the lowest level freshman courses having 20 to 30 students at most. National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) competitive flight team. Prescott's Golden Eagles Flight Team has won the regional championship for the past 19 years straight, and also won the national championship in 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, and 2005.
Athletics
The Prescott Campus has four major sports as part of the athletics department: Men's Soccer, Men's Wrestling, Women's Soccer, and Women's Volleyball. They compete as an unattached member of NAIA Region II.
There are several club sports as well, such as baseball, rugby, cheer squad, dance team, archery, golf, indoor soccer, lacrosse, softball, and ice hockey.
See also
External links
Daytona Campus
- Alpha Omicron Alpha Aeronautical Honor Society
- Embry-Riddle Eagles Flight Team
- ERAU Student Government Association
- The Avion Newspaper
- EaglesFM.com 99.1 WIKD-LP EaglesFM
- Embry-Riddle's Space Physics Research Lab
- Embry-Riddle's Atmospheric Physics Research Lab
- Embry-Riddle Observatory
- Discovery Wing ERAU Daytona Beach Florida via YouTube