{"id":11882,"date":"2019-02-10T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=11882"},"modified":"2019-02-11T03:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T03:08:28","slug":"usi-partners-with-drone-nerds-to-offer-drone-education-to-prepare-students-for-industry-specific-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/unmanned-systems\/usi-partners-with-drone-nerds-to-offer-drone-education-to-prepare-students-for-industry-specific-sectors\/%20","title":{"rendered":"USI Partners with Drone Nerds to Offer Drone Education to Prepare Students for Industry-Specific Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Unmanned Safety Institute (USI) has partnered with Drone\nNerds to provide cost-effective solutions for drone technology and fleet\nmanagement for USI\u2019s STEAM education programs and collegiate workforce\ndevelopment programs nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USI and Drone Nerds will offer Career Cluster Kits that are\ndesigned to provide the technology hardware, sensor, and software being\nutilized in specific industries so that Career and Technical Education Programs\nacross the country can offer drone education that prepares students for\nindustry-specific sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strategic partnership provides a turnkey solution for\nacademia K-16 to implement industry relevant technology, curriculum, and\ncertifications.  Programs range from\nshort courses for implementation into existing course frameworks to standalone\n12 College Credits courses with state approved frameworks. The turnkey solution\nframework also provides maintenance solutions to keep a classroom flying in the\nevent that a drone is no longer airworthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUSI\u2019s partnership with Drone Nerds supports USI\u2019s\ninternational footprint to provide relevant technology, curriculum, and content\nto enhance instructor professional development and create local qualified\nworkforces with the highest standards in the industry,\u201d said Josh Olds,\nPresident of Unmanned Safety Institute. \u201cThis partnership simplifies the entire\nprocess for any K-16 educational entity to implement, operate, and maintain a\ndrone education program, so that the school can work with proven curriculum, relevant\nhardware and sensor technology, and the highest quality fleet management,\ntechnical support, and repair service to address needs that arise during the\ndelivery of the program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Unmanned Safety Institute has developed scalable\nacademic programs over the last four years which have been implemented in high\nschools, colleges, universities, and technical institutes across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USI\u2019s programs include the Small UAS Ground School, an\ninstructor driven, self-paced, or hybrid program that sets the foundation of\nrequired aeronautical knowledge for remote pilots of UAS less than 55 pounds\nthat are interested in obtaining their Part 107 Remote Pilot\u2019s license for\ncommercial operations.  The curriculum\naddresses all pertinent aeronautical knowledge factors outlined by the FAA for\nthe Unmanned Aircraft General (UAG) examination and augments those with safety\nconcepts and practices to develop well-informed and responsible remote pilots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Small UAS Safety Certification\u2122 is comprised of four\ncourses with optional ACE Credit Recommended 12 college credits. Students who\nsuccessfully complete the program are eligible to take USI\u2019s credentialing exam\nleading to the Small UAS Safety Certification, an industry certification\ndemonstrating expertise in the safe and professional application of remotely\npiloted aircraft making them highly qualified for careers in the burgeoning\nindustry of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, commonly referred to as \u201cdrones.\u201d To\ndate, more than 5,000 students have successfully completed the program which\nhas already been approved by several State Departments of Education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

USI\u2019s Visual Line-of-Sight System Operations\u2122 program is a\nsystem of practical flight safety instruction which includes drone flight\nsafety curricula, frameworks, instructor training, courseware, instructional\ndelivery methods, simulation, and testing and evaluation procedures. The\nprogram ensures that each crewmember becomes educated, standardized, and\nadequately trained for aircraft utilized in particular industry clusters.  Learner obtains a practical understanding of\nchecklists, flows, site survey, mission planning, safety and risk management,\nand more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Unmanned Safety Institute (USI) has partnered with Drone Nerds to provide cost-effective solutions for drone technology and fleet management for USI\u2019s STEAM education programs and collegiate workforce development programs nationwide. USI and Drone Nerds will offer Career Cluster Kits that are designed to provide the technology hardware, sensor, and software being utilized in specific […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11905,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions\/11905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}