IGVC challenges student teams to build
and operate autonomous robotic vehicles
on an outdoor course with defined lanes,
detect obstacles and follow waypoint navigation. It is a design experience that is at the
very cutting edge of engineering education.
“The fact that Bluefield State College was
the smallest school in the competition and
one of only a very few colleges or universities there without an engineering graduate
school makes our performance even more
meaningful,” says Riggins.
Allegheny Insurance Announces
Launch of Mobile App
Allegheny Insurance Services, Inc. has
announced the launch of a mobile app for
its clients’ insurance needs.
“We are excited to be able to offer a
mobile app for our clients, available both
on iTunes and Google Play,” says James
Wallace, president of Allegheny Insurance.
“Now they can easily access their insurance
policy information and be guided through
the steps to take in the event of an auto
accident.”
Features of the app include the ability
to create individual inventories for homes,
offices and multiple other spaces; the ability
to store values, dates of purchase, photos
and descriptions and the ability to generate
PDFs of these inventories.
The app’s accident support feature
provides guidance of what to do in case
of an auto accident, including the steps to
document the accident and submit a claim;
what to collect from drivers, passengers, witnesses and police and how to easily access
roadside assistance and repair shops.
West Virginia Northern Community
College Partners with NASA
for Training Opportunities
West Virginia Northern Community
College (WVNCC) and the NASA/West
Virginia Space Grant Consortium have
partnered twice in recent months to provide
significant training opportunities for two
faculty members and an honors student.
This year, David Stoffel, assistant professor and program director of computer
information technology, and Adam Beatty,
computer information technology instructor,
participated in intensive week-long courses
in Morgantown. Stoffel took the Systems
Engineering Teacher Certification training
course while Beatty took the Cyber Security
Teacher Certification training course.
Stoffel and Beatty will now be able to
integrate NASA-approved materials into
CIT courses offered at WVNCC. This is
particularly important because the CIT
program is offering a new associate in
applied science degree in cyber security for
the fall semester, which begins August 29.
David Craig, a first-year mechatronics
student at Northern’s Weirton campus, was
awarded an internship through NASA this
year and worked this summer at the Touchstone Research Laboratory in Triadelphia.
Craig hopes to transfer the knowledge and
skills acquired at Northern to the mechanical and aerospace engineering program at
West Virginia University and from there
to a career in space exploration.
SBIR Road Tour Draws
Crowd in Morgantown
The SBIR Road Tour recently made a
stop at the WVU Media Innovation Center
in Morgantown, WV. Nearly 100 West
Virginia innovators, entrepreneurs and
technology-centric small businesses gathered
to learn more about the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
The SBIR Road Tour is a national
outreach effort that travels to an estimated
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