Life in Engineering: Drone Lab
College of Engineering
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09/21/2016
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Computer Science and Engineering Professor Brittany Duncan talks about Life in Engineering at the Drone Lab
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- [00:00:00.040](calm music)
- [00:00:04.916]We do unmanned aerial vehicle research
- [00:00:06.737]but we also do a little bit
- [00:00:07.630]with ground and water vehicles as well.
- [00:00:09.788]In this lab some of the applications,
- [00:00:11.082]just a few that we work on,
- [00:00:12.473]are starting fires for prescribed burns
- [00:00:14.829]with unmanned aerial vehicles,
- [00:00:16.182]water sampling,
- [00:00:17.786]wireless power transfer
- [00:00:19.461]and also data collection.
- [00:00:20.662]So things that you could use for infrastructure.
- [00:00:23.748]And a different application,
- [00:00:25.162]the UAV FF can actually provide more safety.
- [00:00:27.726]So it can save people's lives
- [00:00:30.286]by not asking them to do things that are really dangerous.
- [00:00:32.750]We're also using it in a medical context.
- [00:00:34.969]We're looking at how to actually
- [00:00:36.858]make medical interactions better
- [00:00:38.718]through bringing in family members
- [00:00:40.934]who may be separated by time or distance.
- [00:00:43.439]I think it's always surprising
- [00:00:44.582]to high school students and to their parents
- [00:00:45.994]to see what these vehicles could actually do
- [00:00:47.778]out in the real world.
- [00:00:48.614]That's something that we get them
- [00:00:49.690]to think more broadly about.
- [00:00:51.010]And engineering students are really good
- [00:00:53.170]at picking up on new things
- [00:00:54.790]that they can do with these technologies.
- [00:00:56.202]We love getting students who are interested in drones
- [00:00:59.497]and recreational hobby use of unmanned aerial vehicles.
- [00:01:02.583]They come in the lab,
- [00:01:03.442]they find us
- [00:01:04.275]and they're interested,
- [00:01:05.466]and they're enthusiastic
- [00:01:06.499]and we love to harness that enthusiasm
- [00:01:07.958]and get them working on real problems with real people.
- [00:01:10.822](calm music)
- [00:01:14.775]Engineering is problem solving for real world situations.
- [00:01:18.882]Engineering is innovation and creativity.
- [00:01:21.255](calm music)
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