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April 18, 2017
Congratulations to BIGIDEAS Winners: Isabella Domi, Jessica Palmer, Emery Silberman
Three Mechanical Engineering undergraduates Isabella Domi, Jessica Palmer, Emery Silberman won Berkeley BIGIDEAS competition with $7000 award. Quoting from the award email (4/17/17) "Congratulations! Your Big...
April 10, 2017
Congratulations to Brandon Stark for passing the final Ph.D. dissertation defense on April 5th, 2017 Wednesday!
Well done Dr. Stark!
Flyer of the defense (PDF)
Ph.D. Dissertation (Front-matter-Chapter01.PDF. For full PDF, being finalized, to be linked here)
Last...
March 31, 2017
http://citris-uc.org/citris-and-the-banatao-institute-award-611000-to-eleven-information-technology-projects/
Project 1. Consequences-Aware Co-Piloting System For Human-In-The-Loop Drone Operations
Principal investigators: Mark Mueller (UC Berkeley) and YangQuan Chen (...
March 31, 2017
Congratulations to Guoxiang Zhang and Tiebiao Zhao for winning NVidia GPU grant (Titian X Pascal)
(Performace comparisons)
From: NVIDIA GPU Grant Program [mailto:no-reply@webportalapp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 1:34 PM
To: YangQuan Chen <ychen53@ucmerced.edu>
Cc:...
March 22, 2017
Mechatronics for Sustainability via Biochar Info Hub
News:
3/2/2019. MobileBiochar page is up with information on our recently awarded $3M SGC funding.
The Second Biochar Meeting @ UC Merced. Agenda. 5/3/2017
All talks were...
March 18, 2017
Prof. Chen's #UAS4STEM talk at 2nd AgTechFair @ CITRIS@UCMERCED
Title: Drone Educational Ecosystem at UC Merced (#UAS4STEM)
Slides (PDF 6.4Mb) (PPT 21Mb)
P.S. On 3/10/17the whole Friday, this UC Merced Extension course (ENGR.830.1 Introduction to Drone/UAS/...
March 7, 2017
A List of FAA Certified Drone Pilots @ UC Merced
Congratulations to all who successfully passed the FAA UAS Knowledge Test and obtained the FAA drone pilot licenses. We feel very proud of you!
Click here for the list.
This list will get longer as time goes because of our #UAS4STEM educations...
February 24, 2017
UAS4STEM: Unmanned Aerial Systems for STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) Education @ UC Merced (#UAS4STEM)
Other related programs:
USDA AFRI ELI
NSF REU (e.g. MAS-net 2010)
ED HSI STEM
STEM-TRACKS and TEAM-E
UAS4STEM @ UC MERCED (#UAS4STEM...
February 24, 2017
Congratulations!
FEATURE
Unmanned aerial systems for agriculture and natural resources
by Sean D. Hogan, Maggi Kelly, Brandon Stark, YangQuan Chen
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CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE,
January-March 2017
Volume 71,...
February 23, 2017
Summer 2017 ME190 "Unmanned Aerial Systems" course now open for registration.
Professor YangQuan Chen will offer this course for the first time in the first session of Summer in 2017. It was first offered in Fall 2016 with 45 students registered and all passed. More than 10 students...