ECE 5/7393 (June 2026)
Schedule

Day # Date Details
1 6/3
  • 9:00 AM: History, Course Structure, Drone Safety
  • 10:00 AM: Drone Safety Session
  • 11:00 AM: Pixhawk & QGroundControl
  • 12:00 PM or later: Initial Drone Flights
2 6/4
  • 9:00 AM: Cellular Networks & Emerging Tech
  • 10:00 AM: Telemetry Setup (Hands-on)
  • 11:00 AM: Path Loss & Wireless Fading
  • 12:00 PM or later: In-field Measurements
3 6/5
  • 9:00 AM: Wildfire/Weed Anomaly Detection
  • 10:00 AM: AIDER Dataset Activity (Start)
  • 11:00 AM: AIDER & Inference
  • 12:00 PM or later: Continue AIDER & Inference
4 6/8
  • 9:00 AM: QGIS, DeepForest, Wireless Prediction
  • 10:00 AM: Mapping/ML Activity
  • 11:00 AM: Project Topic Discussion
  • 12:00 PM or later: Continued Mapping or Project Work
5 6/9
  • 9:00 AM: Object Detection (YOLO, VisDrone)
  • 10:00 AM: Field Trip Travel
  • 11:00 AM: Ericsson Field Trip in Plano
  • 1:00 PM: Return to Dallas from Field Trip + Detection Activity
6 6/10
  • 9:00 AM: Reinforcement Learning for Drones
  • 10:00 AM: Detection Activity
  • 11:00 AM: Project and Activity Support
  • 12:00 PM or later: Detection Activity
7 6/11
  • 9:00 AM: Digital Twins
  • 10:00 AM: Proposal Prep
  • 11:00 AM: Secure Drone Collaboration
  • 1:00 PM: Field Trip Travel
  • 2:00 PM: Shield AI Field Trip in Frisco
  • 5:00 PM: Return to Dallas from Field Trip
8 6/12 Project Proposal Presentations (9:00 AM – Noon)
  • Each group presents for 15 minutes
  • 10 minutes for discussion/Q&A
  • 1 minute transitions
9 6/15
  • 9:00 AM: Guest Lecture: Dr. William Bjorndahl (RF Native AI Workflows)
  • 10:00 AM: Project Work
  • 11:00 AM: Project Work
  • 12:00 PM or later: Project Work
10 6/16
  • 9:00 AM: Guest Lecture: Dr. Alejandro Aceves (Modeling and Computation for Complex Systems)
  • 10:00 AM: Project Work
  • 11:00 AM: Project Work
  • 12:00 PM or later: Project Work
11 6/17
  • 9:00 AM: Guest Lecture: Farhad Nouri (Fully Homomorphic Encryption)
  • 10:00 AM: Project Work
  • 11:00 AM: Project Work
  • 12:00 PM or later: Project Work
Final Reports Due by 11:59pm

*Schedule is tentative and may change based on semester developments.