Honeywell Funds Embry-Riddle Digital Signal Processing Lab
 Prescott, Ariz., May 13, 1999 -- The Prescott campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University recently received two notable gifts from Honeywell. The maker of control technologies has committed $100,000 over a four-year period for a Digital Signal Processing Laboratory at the university's King Engineering and Technology Center. Also, Embry-Riddle electrical engineering student Katherine Johnson, a senior from Montrose, Colo., is the first recipient of Honeywell's $10,000 Meyer Scholarship.
"We've had a great relationship with Embry-Riddle over the past 15 years," said Paul Rauschelbach, Honeywell's vice president of technology, space, and aviation control. "Our first investment was with the Control and Integration Laboratory, and we saw that it was really helpful in supporting student education. We also felt that Embry-Riddle did an excellent job with our investment in creating a first-class controls lab. Expanding that initial investment with the digital signal processing lab was a natural extension."
Students will use the Digital Signal Processing Laboratory to study, simulate, and experiment with digital signals and systems. Because the lab combines both software and hardware applications, it will support education in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering.
Honeywell created the Meyer Scholarship, named after Cessna Chairman Russell W. Meyer Jr.,
in recognition of the long-standing relationship between Honeywell and Cessna. The scholarship will be awarded each year to a qualified student pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering at Embry-Riddle's Prescott campus. The recipient automatically becomes eligible for a summer internship at Business and Commuter Aviation Systems (BCAS) of Honeywell.
Embry-Riddle, the world's largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, meets the needs of students and industry through its educational, training, research, and consulting activities. Degree programs through the master's level are offered at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., at more than 100 teaching sites in the U.S. and Europe, and through independent study and distance education.
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