Workplace violence is a critical and growing concern for organizations across all industries. It encompasses a wide spectrum from bullying and verbal threats to physical assaults and, in the most tragic cases, homicide. While acts of extreme violence often dominate news headlines, they are typically preceded by missed warning signs and failed interventions.| Scholarly Commons
In this episode of The Security Podcasts featuring Alan Saquella, Assistant Professor at the College of Business, Security and Intelligence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, we discuss the red flags that a workplace violence incident may be about to occur.| Scholarly Commons
In an age where convenience, efficiency, and security reign supreme, air travel has adapted accordingly. One notable change: the elimination of cash payments on board for food, drinks, and other purchases. This shift away from bills and coins did not happen by accident, it reflected a deliberate focus on safety, security, and smoother operations.| Scholarly Commons
This study investigates the role of specific particle physics interactions in simulations of core collapse supernovae, with a focus on understanding how varying levels of inclusion impact the accuracy of gravitational wave predictions and results of simulations. Different research groups often approach these simulations with varying degrees of complexity, cutting corners by omitting certain reactions or simplifying others. This project systematically evaluates the implications of these choice...| Scholarly Commons
This dissertation investigates the application of reinforcement learning (RL) to the design and optimization of low-thrust spacecraft trajectories, with an emphasis on autonomy, adaptability, and robustness in the presence of system uncertainties and unmodeled perturbations. Classical approaches to low-thrust trajectory design are predominantly grounded in optimal control theory, which relies on the availability of precise dynamical models and often requires problem-specific reformulation and...| Scholarly Commons
To address the limitations of Next Generation Radar-based bird strike forecasting, this study modeled 12 spatiotemporal weather features from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration alongside bird strike risk using Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network (LSTM-RNN), XGBoost regression tree, and Bayesian network algorithms. Five years of bird strike data from four geographically diverse airfields served as the target risk variable, categorized as low, moderate, or severe ba...| Scholarly Commons
The Black Box is a creative publication dedicated to displaying the talented work of Embry Riddle. Creativity and ingenuity flow throughout ERAU and we want to put it on display.| Scholarly Commons
Dear Readers, Welcome to another year of The Black Box! Our Staff has worked hard to bring you this issue, and we're certain you'll enjoy it. This year we have submissions from a wide variety of students, faculty, and staff, giving you a unique perspective on our campus not often seen. As the editors, we would like to thank Dr. Eileen Landis-Groom for her guidance and limitless patience. We also would like to thank the Student Government Association for providing the funds to bring this issue...| Scholarly Commons
The Black Box is a student-based creative publication serving the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent on campus. Please, browse these pages and enjoy.| Scholarly Commons
The Black Box is a student-based creative publication serving the ERAU campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of ERAU students. Please browse these pages and enjoy.| Scholarly Commons
The Black Box is a student-based creative publication serving the ERAU campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of ERAU students. Please browse these pages and enjoy.| Scholarly Commons
The Black Box is a student-based creative publication serving the ERAU campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of ERAU students. Please browse these pages and enjoy.| Scholarly Commons
The Black Box is a student-based creative publication serving the ERAU campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of the ERAU students. View and enjoy!| Scholarly Commons
The Black Box is a creative publication dedicated to displaying the talented work of ERAU. Creativity and ingenuity flow throughout ERAU and we want to put it on display!| Scholarly Commons
Interface modification of carbon fibers has been shown to improve the mechanical performance of composites. In addition, interface modification of carbon fiber composites can impart multifunctionality into the resulting composite. This work will explore ZnO and MnO2 as interface modifications for use on carbon fibers. When exposed to high temperatures, carbon fibers undergo fiber degradation, leading to the need for low-temperature hydrothermal processes. This work will develop and characteri...| Scholarly Commons
Mass property estimation, including mass, center of mass, and moment of inertia, is a crucial yet challenging problem in spacecraft autonomy and astrodynamics. Knowledge of mass properties of a spacecraft is essential for future astronautical missions, as changes in the mass properties of a spacecraft due to a shift in cargo distribution often require a careful and costly recalculation to ensure applied control inputs produce the desired results. As spacecraft missions grow in both duration a...| Scholarly Commons
The Black Box is a creative publication dedicated to displaying the talented work of the Embry Riddle community. Creativity and ingenuity flow throughout ERAU and we want to put it on display.| Scholarly Commons
This thesis investigates a novel method for aerodynamic flow control at the wing–body junction through the use of a morphing leading-edge fairing actuated by pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs). The compliant fairing, cast from Ecoflex® 00–31 silicone and embedded with a McKibben-type PAM actuator, was designed to dynamically reshape the junction surface and influence local flow behavior. Experiments were conducted in a low-speed opencircuit wind tunnel with a NACA 0015 airfoil model, an...| Scholarly Commons
The development of embeddable, multi-material wireless microsensors offers transformative potential for structural health monitoring (SHM) in aerospace applications. This work integrates additive manufacturing (AM) techniques with advanced microstructural design to produce flexible, high-resolution sensors that can be directly embedded into polymer substrates. By utilizing the vat photopolymerization process, customized embedded sensors are seamlessly integrated into polymer AM structures. Th...| Scholarly Commons
Over-actuated surface vessels require control–allocation strategies that compute commands based on a surge–sway–yaw force vector among multiple independently steerable thrusters without violating actuator constraints. Conventional methods either solve a constrained optimization at every control step—incurring variable computational load—or apply pseudo-inverse heuristics that risk constraint violations. This thesis derives a closedform, limit-aware solution for a Unmanned Surface Ve...| Scholarly Commons
In response to growing environmental concerns and the urgent demand for sustainable development, the composite materials industry is increasingly challenged to balance high performance with environmental responsibility. Conventional composites, typically composed of synthetic fibers and petroleum-based resins, offer outstanding mechanical properties but are associated with significant ecological drawbacks due to their non-biodegradable nature and energy-intensive production. This has led to i...| Scholarly Commons
Scholarly Commons is an open access digital repository for the research, scholarship, and creative works of the faculty, students and staff of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. By collecting and preserving the University community’s research in a single location, Scholarly Commons provides a digital showcase for campus publications, archival materials, library special collections and other University-related creative works not published elsewhere. For more information, please contact th...| commons.erau.edu
Mobile devices usually provide a “factory-reset” tool to erase user-specific data from the main secondary storage. 9 Apple iPhones, 10 Android devices, and 2 BlackBerry devices were tested in the first systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of factory resets. Tests used the Cellebrite UME-36 Pro with the UFED Physical Analyzer, the Bulk Extractor open-source tool, and our own programs for extracting metadata, classifying file paths, and comparing them between images. Two phones were s...| Scholarly Commons