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SAP Partnership Produces Supply Chain Standouts Ten students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus College of Business are among the first to benefit from the college’s latest industry partnership by earning a Student Recognition Award from SAP, a global company that specializes in enterprise resource planning to create networks that provide transparency, resiliency and sustainability across supply chains. The new connection to the SAP University Alliances Program allows students pursuing the Bachelor of Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management to set themselves apart and stand out to potential employers in this vital and rapidly expanding field.
There are so many people like me who look at something like becoming a pilot and think it would be impossible. I want to help show them it is not impossible.”
Marily Aguilar-Hernandez ’23 Aeronautics
ASPIRING PILOT GETS A LIFT
classes at the Ramstein Air Base campus and supported herself by working as a preschool teacher at the base. She then relocated to Mobile, Alabama, where she is now continuing her degree program and learning to fly. Her desire to land a job on the flight deck has become a mission that includes her desire to set an example for others — especially other Latinas — to follow. Beyond the guidance she gets from the expert College of Aviation faculty, Aguilar-Hernandez is grateful for the support of the Center of Mentorship Programs and Student Success, better known as COMPASS. Offered through Worldwide’s College of Arts & Sciences, COMPASS pairs students with faculty mentors to elevate skills that enhance personal growth and academic achievement. One of the key things Aguilar-Hernandez has learned is how to avoid being overwhelmed by big projects. “The COMPASS program taught me about ‘eating the elephant,’ which you have to do one bite at a time,” she said. “And that’s actually helped me so much, and it’s become something that I am using now in my everyday life.”
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As a first-generation college student, Marily Aguilar-Hernandez is pursuing some big dreams, not the least of which is becoming a commercial airline pilot. Now, as she graduates with her B.S. in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus, Aguilar- Hernandez is thrilled with the progress she has made thanks to the support of the entire Worldwide team. After being raised by a single mother who came to the U.S. from Mexico, Aguilar- Hernandez began her aviation adventure in Germany, where her father was serving in the military. She took her first Embry-Riddle
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