Opinion: A Giant Leap For Higher Education Engineering

2023 Embraer Grand Challenge winning entry

This rendering, titled “The Seamoth Search and Rescue Drone,” depicts the design that won the 2023 learning challenge sponsored by the Embraer Foundation and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The hands-on learning experience asked high school students to conceive and design an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle using a professional design platform.

Credit: Joshua Rea/Embraer Executive Jets
Steps from where students learn to repair the latest jet engines and avionics inside Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Aviation Maintenance Science Building stands a working scale replica of the wind tunnel built by Orville and Wilbur Wright. The original—a long wooden box with a gas-powered...

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