This short course provides an engaging and dynamic professional learning experience through which scientists and engineers will develop and practice their skills and competencies in the following areas: 1. Getting from research to technology, to customer, to product, to business opportunity 2. Strategic ideation and design thinking for accelerated product and new venture design 3. Pitching yourself and the things about which you’re most passionate in ways that people understand Versions of this course have been delivered in western Canada through the Spark School for Innovation by Design, to engineering graduate students at the University of Calgary, and to business leaders and their teams trying to build these ‘muscles’ within their organizations. The same approaches were used in workshops in Toronto and Waterloo delivered to STEM-educated personnel after Blackberry’s challenges in 2013-14. And they have been delivered in top innovation and entrepreneurship programs in places ranging from Mexico, to Moscow, to many institutions in the United States. Participants can expect to be engaged in foundational and deeply effective approaches to building their own personal practices, they will get to use leading edge tools, and, through the process, they’ll be challenged and supported in becoming better scientists, engineers, and researchers.

In this presentaion offered by Dr. Ahmed El-Ghazouly, he will provide an introduction to photogrammetry and the difference between Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and photgrammetry. The current state of the drones market, new regulations and the difference between Aerial and Terrestrial projects and data collection. Then will shed the light the field workflow which includes mission planning, flight configuration and mission execution. Next, the data are transferred to the processing machine inorder to create the main deliverables, such as; Orhoimage, Point Cloud and Raster Digital Terrain Model (DTM). Couple of challenges might affect the project execution like the wind speed, blured images and the lake of control points espically at inaccessible areas. At the end, couple of different application-based deliverables will be presented to show the wide applications of drones.

In this tutorial offered by Dr. Charles Toth, he will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art navigation sensors and techniques suitable for various close range navigation and georeferencing of mobile mapping systems, including UAS, wearable/personal navigation, and driverless vehicle platforms. First, the technology trends and developments are reviewed, and then a short analysis is provided on sensors and algorithms. While there are many technologies to facilitate navigation indoors or in any GPS-challenged environments, the mostly widely used techniques are based on imaging sensors, including active and passive sensors. The main part of the course is the discussion on the fundamentals of image based navigation solutions. Finally, the application examples presented will include performance assessments and brief discussion on the operational conditions.