For years, Jeremy Laliberté has been working on ways to apply drone technology to real-world issues. This summer, the Carleton engineering professor put his ideas to the test with a student from Mexico who helped devise a drone that will help small-scale farmers improve the health of their crops. “I had a couple of students who formed a company to do agriculture stuff with UAVs,” says Laliberté, associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Carleton’s research-intensive Faculty of Engineering and Design. “That got me thinking we could do something like that for smaller farmers.”
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