CAMPUS FEATURE
DAYTONA BEACH FLORIDA CAMPUS Our East Coast campus is only minutes from the beach and adjacent to an international airport and speedway.
CAMPUS PROFILE
FUSION ON THE HORIZON
s 7,000 Undergraduate Students s 50 States / 91 Countries Represented s 11% International Students Student Clubs + Organizations Our Florida campus houses hundreds of student clubs, including the Mars Society, Musicians Club, Muscle Car Association and Microgravity Club, as well as club, intramural and recreational sports.
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The opportunity to conduct research at the undergraduate level offers Embry-Riddle students invaluable experience that has the potential to be career changing. Involvement in research that encompasses effectively producing a safe, environmentally friendly and renewable power source using nuclear fusion has the potential to be world-changing.
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Thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), a team of faculty and students are working on technology that can help facilitate the production of fusion energy. Fusion naturally occurs in the sun and other stars. Initiating fusion on Earth involves generating plasma, or gases so hot that ions can fuse together. Over the next five years, the team will investigate the technology used to heat the ions in plasma using natural sources from plasma without relying on expensive and external heating sources.
“If successful, this method can help accelerate the commercialization of cost-effective fusion devices,” said Dr. Byonghoon Seo, the project’s principal investigator and professor in the department of physical sciences. With this research, “we come closer to understanding how we can use plasma to produce nuclear fusion,” said Connor Castleberry, a junior in Space Physics and Computational Mathematics who is involved in the project. “If perfected, it would be a safe, environmentally friendly and renewable power source.”
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