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Congratulations to Brandon Stark for passing the final Ph.D. dissertation defense! Well done Dr. Stark!

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...

MESA Lab won two 2017 CITRIS seed grants - Congratulations!

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 (...

Congratulations to Guoxiang Zhang and Tiebiao Zhao for winning NVidiab GPU grant (Titian X Pascal)

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:...

Dr. Chen's WaterStar talk (PPT) at Cal Biochar Association meeting at UC Merced

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...

Prof. Chen's #UAS4STEM talk slides at 2nd AgTechFair @ CITRIS@UCMERCED

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/...

A List of FAA Certified Drone Pilots @ UC Merced

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...

UAS4STEM @ UC Merced webpage updated!

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...

CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE featured article on AgDrones published

February 24, 2017
Congratulations!   FEATURE Unmanned aerial systems for agriculture and natural resources by Sean D. Hogan, Maggi Kelly, Brandon Stark, YangQuan Chen Full text HTML  | PDF       CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE,  January-March 2017  Volume 71,...

Summer 2017 ME190 "Unmanned Aerial Systems" course now open for registration

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...

Congratulations to Guoxiang Zhang, Moataz Dahabra and Derek Hollenbeck for travel awards to IEEE RAS Winter School at UNLV and CES17

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...

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