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Subsystems

December 5, 2020
When working on the design and implementation of any project it is of vital importance that a strong set of working criteria are established for the purposes of evaluating the subsystems created for the project. In our case, the most important criteria we developed were the following: durability,...

Project Working Criteria

November 14, 2020
Recognizing, evaluating, and utilizing working criteria is an imperative part of the UC Merced and Engineering design process. Working Criteria are the hard constraints used to determine the physical attributes of the project. Hard constraints include any details demanded by the client that the...

Project Impacts

October 30, 2020
The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Engineering Service Learning Team has partnered with the Fresno Discovery Center (Fresno, CA) to design and create a museum exhibit that aims to educate the public about Permafrost. Permafrost refers to the frozen earth found underneath the Arctic regions. This...

UAV Research

October 19, 2020
The field of drone technology is ever expanding and is on the cutting edge of research. Derek Hollenbeck is a graduate student at University of California, Merced who has been involved in furthering drone research. He has published research papers regarding methane...

Project Stakeholders

October 2, 2020
Stakeholders are different groups of people or a person that benefits from a product. Then each different group of people or a person can be identified into a listing requirement. Our listing requirements are Client Organization, Maintenance, End-user, and Target Audience. Different...

Fresno Discovery Center

September 25, 2020
          The Engineering Service-learning team is partnering with the Fresno Discovery Center this semester to design a new exhibit to add to their current displays. The Fresno Discovery Center has a long history in the Central Valley dating back to 1954 when it opened as...

UAV Fall 2020 Project

September 18, 2020
This semester the UAV team is going to be working with the Fresno Discovery Center to create an exhibit that will be displayed to help children learn more about science. The Fresno Discovery Center has requested that the team work on an exhibit that will teach children about climate change and some...

Spring 2020 Semester Overview

May 3, 2020
Engineering Service Learning is unique where within each project, it may take years to complete, yet students from one semester’s team rarely overlap into another semester’s team. Consequently, while the Unmanned Aerial Systems (also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) project focuses on...

OpenCV Pixel Recognition

April 18, 2020
Hello everyone and welcome to the UAS OpenCV image stitching team whose tasks were to create a code where it was able to stitch images together and detect nematodes. This code was to be used by the people at KARE (Kearny Agricultural Research Extension) to help determine information from the images...

UAV's Graphical User Interface

April 17, 2020
Welcome everyone to the Software Sub-team in which this team’s task is to research and create a User Interface in which will be used as the backend of the website that KARE (Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension) will be creating. Our team has been creating and designing various formats...

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