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100

The largest and most diverse field of engineering, it is concerned with the development and design, application, and manufacture of systems and devices that use electric power and signals

Electrical Engineering

 

100

Enrollment of female students at this campus has the most

26.7% Prescott

100

This program will NASA land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024

Artemis

100

In what year was the 19th amendment passed?

1920

200

This engineering discipline creates plans and tactics for reducing smoke and fire damage in houses, buildings and cities

Fire Protection/Fire Safety Engineering

200

This person was the first President of Embry-Riddle and known as father of the modern aviation university

Jack R.Hunt

200

This Rover, which landed 17 days ago, will investigate a region of Mars where the ancient environment may have been favorable for microbial life, probing the Martian rocks for evidence of past life

Perseverance

200

What year was Title IX signed into law by President Ricarch Nixon?

1972

300

This engineering discipline has origins dating back to ancient Egypt when shelter, infrastructure and transportation were an important community need. Today, it deals with the creation, improvement, and protection of the communal environment, providing facilities for living, industry and transportation

Civil Engineering

300

This two person founded the Embry-Riddle Company in Dec.1925

Barnstormer pilot John Paul Riddle, Entrepreneur T. Higbee Embry

300

This spacecraft will carry crew to lunar orbit where they will transfer to a human landing system or the Gateway. Crew will use the spacecraft to return safely home to Earth, which has been built to withstand the extreme heat experienced upon re-entry into the atmosphere

Orion

300

In what year was the first women’s rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, held?

1848

400

An engineer of this discipline is trained in historical geology, mineralogy, paleontology, and geophysics, and employs tools such as the seismograph and the magnetometer

Geological/Mining Engineering

400

Seven Embry-Riddle alumni are current or former astronauts but only two of them graduated from Daytona Beach Campus

Susan Kilrain, Nicole Stott

400

It is an outpost around the Moon to support human and scientific exploration in deep space. Built with commercial and international partners, it is critical to sustainable lunar exploration and will serve as a model for future missions to Mars

Gateway

400

This woman was a longtime activist with the National Woman Suffrage Association and is sworn in as the first woman elected to Congress as a member of the House of Representatives

Jeannette Rankin

500

This engineering discipline is used wherever mechanical and electrical systems need to be measured and monitored. Building wiring looms, sensor calibration, signal conditioning and testing methods are common daily tasks

Instrumentation Engineering

500

This was the original name of our school in 1939

Embry-Riddle School of Aviation 

500

These companies (3) won the contract to design and develop THE Artemis Human Landing System

Blue Origin, Dynetics, SpaceX

500

This woman helped found the National Organization for Women (NOW)

Betty Friedan

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