by winterea | Nov 18, 2015 | Ecology: Pollution
As we near the end of the JMU Drones Challenge, it’s important to take a step back and analyze the interdisciplinary thinking among group amAIRica throughout the project. To begin, engineers design and build various structures––in this case, drones. They often work...
by winterea | Nov 18, 2015 | Ecology: Riverbeds
Back to the Future Part II was a time travel film produced in 1989, where Marty McFly gave the world its first glimpses of a distant millennium…the year 2015 to be exact. The film showed outrageous inventions like video calling, fingerprint recognition, flying cars...
by winterea | Nov 17, 2015 | Landmines: Detection
Drones are safe People often disregard drones and shed a negative light on this new technology. If drones are approached with an open mind and people learn all of the features a drone can offer, it’s obvious that they will see that they are in fact quite...
by winterea | Nov 17, 2015 | First Response
When I first walked into the X-Labs classroom 12 weeks ago, I was initially overwhelmed by the very idea of the technologies we would have the opportunity to use. To me a 3D printer only existed in really high-level research facilities, or movies. Only a small number...
by winterea | Nov 16, 2015 | Landmines: Disarming
We don’t have desks, we have work benches. We don’t have a whiteboard, we have multi-screen teleconferencing and presentation walls. We don’t have one professor, we have seven, three of which roll around the classroom in robots called Beams. Instead of normal...
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