This paper presents the design, construction, testing, and results of the project assigned to the 2014 NASA Langley Research Center Aeronautics Academy. The Academy was tasked with delivering one Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) capable of performing both Search and Rescue (SAR) and Precision Agriculture (PA) missions. The aircraft was constructed using primarily Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronics and flight hardware housed in a custom-fabricated airframe. The UAS, named TIGRESS (Technology in Ground Rescue and Environmental Stress Sensing) is capable of long-endurance autonomous flight, live video streaming, autonomous detections of persons, creation of Normalized Density Vegetation Index (NDVI) maps, and has completed four successful flights. The results of the flight tests, the design, and the construction methods are presented. Additionally, recommendations for further tests are presented.

We have a confession to make: this book is meant to recruit you. Even if Minerva exists for a thousand years, graduates some of the most influential leaders, thinkers, innovators, and transformational figures of the future, and becomes the most desirable university program in the world, we can easily have failed in our mission. As we have mentioned repeatedly in this book, we exist to nurture critical wisdom for the sake of the world. This mission is simply impossible for us to accomplish alone....

When we set out to design the Active Learning Forum we had three aspirational goals in mind. First, we wanted every student to feel as though he or she is sitting next to the professor. Students are constantly engaged in “fully active learning.” Second, we wanted the technology to disappear. We ensure that the focus is on the interactions and discussion among students and the professor; the technology fades into the background. Third, we wanted to bring the seminar back from the ether. Because we record each class, faculty can provide students with feedback on every class (and vice versa!). Students can see the history of how they do over the course of a semester, a year and eventually their entire time at Minerva. The combined result of meeting these three goals is that we can have seminars that surpass what’s possible in a traditional classroom and create better learning

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