The FAA selected TROY's Unmanned Aerial Systems program for the UAS Collegiate Training Initiative.
The Federal Aviation Administration has selected Troy University’s Unmanned Aerial Systems program for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Collegiate Training Initiative (UAS-CTI).
“I am extremely proud that Troy University has been accepted into this prestigious national drone collegiate studies program,” said Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr., Chancellor of TROY. “We are the first institution in Alabama to join…
The department combines combines geography, surveying and drone technology.
A new academic department within the College of Arts and Sciences will give TROY students a path to high-tech, in-demand jobs.
The Department of Geospatial Informatics began in May as the new home of the geomatics program, the geographic information systems (GIS) minor and the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) minor.
The new department includes geomatics…
An image of Troy University's campus in Troy demonstrates the capabilities of an unmanned aerial system.
With the implementation this week of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Part 107 rules governing drone usage in the country, many commercial operators now have a clear path forward in the use of unmanned aerial systems.
“These vehicles are in use everywhere,” said Troy University adjunct professor Al Allenback, a retired Air Force colonel and fighter…