Daytona Beach Campus Facts
The Wright Flyer sculpture is mounted in front of Jack R. Hunt Library
The Daytona Beach campus is located adjacent to the Daytona Beach
International Airport. The high- technology industry in the Orlando
area, as well as nearby Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center, provide
the university with an outstanding support base.
The campus offers state-of-the-art facilities, including the
75,000-square-foot College of Aviation building. The Gill Robb Wilson
Aviation Technology Center houses
classrooms, a weather room, and
dispatch headquarters. Flight instruction is provided through Embry-Riddle's
fleet of Cessna 172s, the multi-engine Piper Seminoles and Diamond
TwinStar D-42s, and a full range of single-engine, multi-engine, and
turbine simulators.
Aircraft-specific training is delivered in an advanced flight simulation
facility. The center houses an
FAA Level-6 full-motion CRJ-200 simulator.
Embry-Riddle's College of Aviation building uniquely
combines expertise and technology that are designed to address the
most pressing challenges facing aviation today: unprecedented passenger
growth, frequent flight delays, security concerns, congested airport
runways, aging aircraft, and outdated computer systems.
Highlights of the 75,000-square-foot building incllude:
The Safe Skies Laboratory holds computerized drafting
stations, cameras, hazardous materials suits, hoists for lifting and
examining aircraft parts, special chemicals, and electron microscopes
used by aircraft accident investigators.
The Aircraft Performance Laboratory contains 30 computerized
replicas of the automated glass instrument panel and manual controls
of a major transport aircraft that allow students to "fly" the aircraft's
performance profile and interact with the instructor.
The Air Traffic Control Simulation Laboratories house
a showcase radar and air traffic control facility, control tower simulator,
and air traffic management laboratory created by industry leader Adacel
Systems and built to Federal Aviation Administration standards. Embry-Riddle
was the first university in the nation to acquire this advanced system.
Air Traffic Management Research Laboratory allows researchers
and students using sophisticated software to simulate airspace and airport
systems and solve problems such as runway incursions, reduce in-flight
fuel costs, and streamline ground operations.
The Weather Center, linked to a remote weather observation
station on the roof of the building and to basic and advanced Meteorology
Laboratories, enables faculty and students to display integrated weather
data in real time.
The building is home to the Aeronautical Science, Applied Aviation
Sciences, and Flight departments. These departments offer degree programs
in Aeronautical Science (for professional pilots), Aeronautical Systems
Maintenance, Air Traffic Management, Applied Meteorology,
Aeronautics, and Safety Science.
The Lehman Engineering and Technology Center on the Daytona Beach
campus features laboratories with the latest research and computer
equipment.
 The
building has subsonic and supersonic wind tunnels and a smoke tunnel,
as well as structures, materials, aircraft design, and composite materials
laboratories. A grant from the National Science Foundation made possible
the purchase of a stereolithography unit used by design students to
produce prototypes of aircraft structures and test their designs within
a short period of time.
The Samuel Goldman Aviation Maintenance Technology
Center is the home
for instruction in the maintenance and repair of fixed-wing and helicopter
airframes, powerplants (reciprocating and turbine), and avionics. This
four-building complex contains laboratories and classrooms equipped
with the most modern tools to provide students with instruction in maintenance
theory and hands-on techniques. Laboratories with state-of-the art computers
help aviation maintenance technology students enter the more complex
realm of a constantly evolving industry. The Avionics Lab repair stations
(FAA-certified repair station 707-50) simulate the avionics environment
that graduates will encounter in the workplace. Engine test cells let
students test the effectiveness of their repairs. The advanced reciprocating
engine lab (FAA-certified repair station NX42404M) overhauls engines
for the Embry-Riddle fleet.
The Lindbergh Center houses modern classroom facilities and houses
the writing and computer information systems laboratories. The computer
science complex provides hands-on experience with mainframe and personal
computers.
The John Paul Riddle Student Center is home to the campus visit office
(where campus tours begin); a full-service cafeteria (the Food Court)
and the Landing Strip snack bar; the campus bookstore; the mailroom
with U.S. postal, UPS, and FedEx services, student activities offices;
student employment; the parking office; safety communications office;
information center; records and registration offices; admissions offices,
international student services; and conference rooms. In Doolittle
Hall Annex, academically focused Student Academic Support Center helps
students make the transition from high school to college more easily.
Canaveral Hall is home to student financial services,
the cashier's office, and financial Aid.
Canaveral is also home to the Eagle
Card center. Daytona Beach campus students (faculty and staff
also) can get free Eagle Cards which serve as identification cards,
access cards, and debit cards for many campus services and venues
including dining services, flight payments, and vending and laundry
machines.
The Jack R. Hunt Memorial Library is a 48,000-square-foot facility
with a seating capacity of 800. The building holds more than 90,000
books, as well as periodicals, documents, newspapers, microfilm, media
programs, and a historical aviation collection with materials dating
from 1909 to the present. Complete service is provided seven days a
week throughout the academic term, with extended hours during final
examinations. A computer link is maintained with the Southeastern Library
Network, which connects thousands of libraries worldwide for shared
cataloging and reciprocal borrowing of documents, reports, conference
proceedings, journal articles, doctoral dissertations, and many other
kinds of information.
Additional facilities include a multi-function auditorium and instructional
media center, the ICI Center fieldhouse and fully-equipped fitness center;
many athletic fields; an olympic-size outdoor swimming pool; tennis,
basketball, and raquetball courts; and an interfaith chapel.
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