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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...
February 7, 2017
Congratulations to MESA LAB Ph.D. students Guoxiang Zhang and Derek Hollenbeck, and undergraduate researcher Moataz Dahabra for travel awards to IEEE RAS Winter School at UNLV and attending CES2017 (http://www.ces.tech/) from Jan. 4 to 7, 2017, Las Vegas.
More details are found in the...
February 6, 2017
Only two were awarded in this year across USA. Congratulations Tiebiao!!
http://me.ucmerced.edu/news/2016/me-grad-student-awarded-yara-n-america-almond-fellowship
Background info:
http://snri.ucmerced.edu/news/global-company-partners-uc-merced-almond-research
Call for nominations (PDF)...
February 6, 2017
Congratulations to Derek Hollenbeck for winning NSF NRT (National Research Traineeship Award) Fellowship in IAS topic. IAS stands for "Intelligent Adaptive Systems". The NSF NRT on IAS program has a website at http://www.nrt-ias.org/
News release: http://www.ucmerced....
June 24, 2016
Ph.D. Candidate Tiebiao Zhao was invited to speak at CAPCA ED Modesto CE Seminar
Stanislaus County Harvest Hall - Room ABC
Wednesday June 22, 2016
On June 22, 2016 the California Association of Pest Control Advisers (CAPCA) held its annual seminar. The purpose of CAPCA ED is to...
June 15, 2016
MESA Lab was fortunate to have participated in Drone Information Day at the California state capitol building this past Tuesday. We were able to share our expertise in Unmanned Aerial Systems(UAS) with many industry leaders and legiaslatures as well as reaching out to the general public. We relayed...
June 13, 2016
Congratulations to Brandon Stark for Establishing and Directing UC COE UAS Safety Center!
New release: UC Merced Becomes Drone Use Policy Hub
Official Web Site and Contact:
Stark, Brandon, Director
UC Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft System Safety
http://tinyurl.com/UC...