Blue Origin President to Speak at Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach Fall Commencement Ceremony

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus will welcome guest speaker Rob Meyerson, President of Blue Origin, as part of a weekend-long honoring of graduates at its Fall 2016 Commencement, Master’s Hooding and ROTC Commissioning ceremonies to be held Dec. 16-19.
As the university celebrates the culmination of its 90th anniversary, the Dec. 19 Commencement ceremony will also feature another milestone with 10 Ph.D. degrees scheduled to be awarded – the largest number in the school’s history.
Doctoral candidates include Engineering Physics and Aviation, and, for the first time, in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Human Factors.
ROTC Commissioning Ceremonies will be on Friday, Dec. 16, Sunday, Dec. 18 and Monday, Dec. 19 on campus, with the Master’s Hooding Ceremony taking place Sunday at the ICI Center on campus. The commencement ceremony featuring guest speaker Meyerson will be Monday, Dec. 19, at 10 a.m. at the Ocean Center, 101 N. Atlantic Ave., Daytona Beach.
Since 2003, Meyerson has overseen the steady growth of Blue Origin, an American privately-funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Wash. Blue Origin is developing reusable launch systems to enable a future in which millions of people are living and working in space. Vehicles and technologies under development include the New Shepard system for suborbital human and research flights, the BE-3 LOX/LH2 rocket engine, the BE-4 LOX/LNG rocket engine, as well as orbital launch systems.
Prior to joining Blue Origin, Meyerson was a Senior Manager at Kistler Aerospace, responsible for the landing and thermal protection systems of a two-stage reusable launch vehicle, as well as all technical activities related to Kistler’s Space Launch Initiative contract with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
He began his career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) as a cooperative education student and progressed to positions in which he led the aerodynamic design of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Drag Parachute, ...

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