{"id":154940,"date":"2024-10-25T09:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=154940"},"modified":"2024-10-25T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:38:01","slug":"dayton-daily-news-wright-state-gets-896k-grant-to-fuel-advanced-air-mobility-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/10\/25\/dayton-daily-news-wright-state-gets-896k-grant-to-fuel-advanced-air-mobility-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: Wright State gets $896K grant to fuel advanced air mobility research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/09\/11\/eight-wright-state-computer-engineering-and-business-degree-programs-receive-national-re-accreditation\/cecs-700x550\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-53897\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2018\/09\/cecs-700x550-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Wright State University will use a new $896,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Higher Education to explore air taxi battery power and efficiency \u2014 hoping to share new insights with some of the industry\u2019s leading players, including Dayton-bound Joby Aviation.<\/p>\n<p>The funding supports Wright State\u2019s advanced air mobility research \u2014 that area of aviation thought of as the \u201cfirst and last leg of air travel,\u201d achieved with electric-powered vertical takeoff-and-landing vehicles that lift off like a helicopter and cruise forward like an airplane.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced air mobility provides new ways to move people and cargo between places more quickly than automobiles and more quietly than helicopters or planes.<\/p>\n<p>Darryl Ahner, dean of WSU\u2019s College of Engineering and Computer Science, said in an interview that the university\u2019s work in the area began in January.<\/p>\n<p>He calls the research two-pronged, an examination of potential improvements into the batteries that power air taxis and ways to make the vehicles overall more efficient and their sensors more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would call it two different focus areas,\u201d Ahner said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/wright-state-gets-896k-grant-to-fuel-advanced-air-mobility-research\/CVJZ34QMPRCW7N47OSOECWG6NM\/\">daytondailynews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University will use a new $896,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Higher Education to explore air taxi battery power and efficiency \u2014 hoping to share new insights with some of the industry\u2019s leading players, including Dayton-bound Joby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/10\/25\/dayton-daily-news-wright-state-gets-896k-grant-to-fuel-advanced-air-mobility-research\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":53897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154940"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154957,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154940\/revisions\/154957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}