The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded Dr. David Kaber a Faculty Early Career Development grant to pursue research into the concept of telepresence in teleoperations. The $465,000 award is to be dispersed across a four-year period and involves investigation of the sensation of being present in a remote environment while controlling a remote robotic…
An ambitious new program is under development. Called the Mississippi Center for Construction and Materials Research and Education, the program will be a special, privately funded engineering center and laboratory tasked with supporting these needs in the state of Mississippi. It will be located at Mississippi State University, within the Civil Engineering Department. Leading and…