Field Trip & Robotics Demos - Celebrate National Engineering Week 2/25

Robotics teams will be taking robots to demo to the Navy Engineering leadership on Wednesday, February 25, 2015, in observance of National Engineers Week.  Robotics team members and SEAP applicant get first priority.

There will likely be an engineering lab tour and a Keynote speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Ling, Office Director, DARPA, Biological Technologies Office will present his revolutionary work in mind-controlled prostheses.

Dr. Geoffrey Ling is the founding director of the DARPA Biological Technologies Office.  His Revolutionizing Prosthetics program developed advanced arm prostheses controlled either non-invasively or directly by a user's brain.  His Preventing Violent Explosive Neuro Trauma program developed new understanding and treatment of blast-induced traumatic brain injury (TBI).  He was the 2009 DARPA Program Manager of the Year and served as the DSO Deputy Director from 2013-2014.

Learn more about Dr. Ling's work at the links below:
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/breakthrough-robotic-limbs-moved-by-the-mind/    ("60 Minutes" report 2012)
http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/BTO/Personnel/DrGeoffreyLing.aspx    (DARPA)