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Industrial engineers explore drone-enabled services

11/8/17

Industrial engineering graduate students on a Service Engineering Academic Learning team explore drone-enabled services with a new initiative called SmartPark. This drone-based intelligent parking system aims to revolutionize the parking industry by identifying the nearest vacant parking spot in real time using an innovative mobile app.

Drone at Old Main

Drone operators on campus reminded of Penn State, FAA rules

10/2/17

As unmanned aerial systems, or drones, become more popular, Penn State is reminding all drone operators of regulations and guidelines governing their flights for all University-related drone operations on and off Penn State’s campuses.

UAS Group

Student group promotes interdisciplinary collaboration to build drones

1/24/17

Penn State's Unmanned Aerial Systems team is working to create an unmanned air vehicle that will compete in the Student Unmanned Aerial Systems competition, hosted by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International in June at Maryland's Patuxent River Naval Air Station.

Behrend College for Kids

Students fly drones and more at Penn State Behrend's College for Kids

8/24/16

“Introduction to RC Quadcopters and Aerial Photography” was one of more than 103 College for Kids courses held at Penn State Behrend this summer. This year marked the 23rd year for the summer enrichment program, and it was the largest yet: A total of 1,379 children between the ages of 6 and 16 participated.

Drone launch

Cleared for takeoff: University use of unmanned air vehicles resumes

7/18/16

Unmanned air vehicles are flying again at Penn State for research, teaching and public service under the auspices of the Office for Research Protections. A new UAV program will ensure compliance with Federal Aviation Administration rules and puts in place an insurance, registration and procedural infrastructure to govern the outdoor operation of unmanned air systems at the University.

drone taking flight

A new look at the eye of the hurricane

4/11/16

A lifelong love of studying hurricanes brought Erin Munsell to graduate school at Penn State, where she and other graduate students helped NASA collect data from the eye of a hurricane using drones.

Robot-based autonomous refuse handling (ROAR)

Drone to help refuse-collecting robot find refuse bins

2/26/16

Students from Penn State and two Swedish universities have collaborated with the Volvo Group and the Swedish waste recycling company, Renova. The result is a robot that automatically collects and empties refuse bins. A drone on the roof of the refuse truck scans the area and helps the robot to find the bins.

Kyle with Drone

Penn State Berks alumni 'flying high' with customizable drones

11/12/15

It all began when Kyle Moyer, Anthony Rothenberger and Jason King, electro-mechanical engineering technology majors who graduated in December 2014, were enrolled in the same course, "Electromechanical Design Project Preparation and Electromechanical Design Project." They were tasked with designing and building a project, so they worked as a team to build a drone.

Jeff Kerby

Ecology on the wing

9/21/15

Ecology graduate student Jeff Kerby uses a bird's-eye view to map shrubs in Greenland, count chimpanzee nests in Tanzania, and do other research that would be difficult or impossible to do on foot.

engineering students with drone

Alumni 'flying high' from awards for drone business start-up

5/18/15

Three Penn State Berks engineering alumni are “flying high” after receiving two different awards for their innovative plan for a start-up company, Onuku Industries, which builds customizable drones using open source software: One award was from the college and the other was from the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce.

Randall Robinson, World on Trial creator and host, acclaimed human rights advocate, and author.

Dickinson Law to host screening of TV show exploring "Drones and Human Rights"

4/7/15

The second episode of the television series "World on Trial," “Drones and Human Rights,” will premiere at a public screening hosted by Dickinson Law on April 16, followed by a discussion and reception with filmmakers and the program's creator and host, and acclaimed human rights advocate and author Randall Robinson. The free event begins at 6 p.m. in the Lewis Katz Hall’s Apfelbaum Auditorium in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

man smiling, leaning against plane

Flying the airplane electric presented aerospace engineer a 'green' challenge

1/14/14

Four years ago, Jack Langelaan scaled up his research to take on a different challenge. In 2011, Langelaan led an international team that won the Green Flight Challenge, a NASA program intended to spur private development of fuel-efficient small airplanes. "We were not the first to fly an electric-powered airplane," he says. "But we were the first to demonstrate that electric-powered flight can be practical."

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Programming autonomous vehicles to fly like birds

1/14/14

Jack Langelaan, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State, sees many additional possibilities for so-called drones than just delivering packages -- for civil pursuits ranging from crop surveys to low-altitude meteorology. Fulfilling these visions, he says, will require developing planes that can think, or at least react, for themselves.

'Kill-lists and Accountability' set for Nov. 12

10/31/12

Who creates the "kill list"? Who approves the names on the list? How is the targeted killing executed? Who is responsible for ensuring that the strike complies with international humanitarian law obligations? When killings are conducted in secret, how can we hold government accountable? National security scholar Gregory McNeal will present "Kill-lists and Accountability" at Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs. The public is welcome to this event, which will begin at 7 p.m.

The event will be held live in the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Hall, 333 W. South St., Carlisle, Pa. It will be simulcast to the Apfelbaum Courtroom, Lewis Katz Building, University Park, Pa., and webcast live at http://law.psu.edu/events/kill_lists_and_accountability online.