SPECIALIZED LABS & HANDS-ON LEARNING
Tools for Success at Your Fingertips VECTOR Program Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus is dedicated to ensuring that all students have the resources they need to excel academically — and that’s the mission of the Virtual Environment for Communication: Teaching, Outreach and Research (VECTOR). Housed within the College of Arts & Sciences, VECTOR provides support through its Virtual Communication Lab (VCL) by offering free tutoring, workshops and online resources. Our tutors can help with any communication-related project, and we can support you at any stage of the composing process — from brainstorming your speech topic to revising a draft of an essay to helping you design effective visuals for your personal website or e-portfolio. In addition to one-on-one tutoring, the VCL also offers a variety of online resources with tips on topics such as grammar, presentation techniques and APA formatting guidelines that you can access anytime, anywhere.
A LEARNING SPACE THAT SUITS YOU EagleSat Lab Building from the successful 2017 launch of EagleSat 1, students working in the Prescott Campus EagleSat Lab are now preparing for the upcoming launch of EagleSat 2, a 3U CubeSat that will carry two scientif- ic payloads, one designed to detect and track cosmic rays and the other to test how radiation in space affects various types of computer memory. EagleSat is a research and design lab for the EagleSat Space Grant project, and students are tasked with designing and building small satellites for orbital missions as part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative. NASA’s Space Grant project is a network of colleges and universities, such as Embry-Riddle, that are expanding opportunities to take part in some of the agency’s projects.
Incoming Embry-Riddle students will likely work on EageSat 3, the successor to EagleSat 2. It is currently in a system development phase where lab members are writing requirements for the satellite, which will be hosting the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment. Opportunities for hands-on experiences such as this are among the features that set an Embry-Riddle education apart from the rest. Working alongside like-minded peers also enhances the experience and helps students reach heights they could never achieve working alone.
The EagleSat launches are part of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa), a program designed to attract and retain students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. The first EagleSat was launched as part of the ELaNa-14 mission. A CubeSat is a class of miniaturized satellite that usually consists of 10 cm cubes. CubeSats have a mass of no more than 2 kg per unit. Once launched, the satellite ground station on campus will be able to communicate with this satellite for nine minutes every day as it passes overhead.
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