The Student Innovator of the Year (SIOY) competition each year is an excellent opportunity for students to show off their technical and professional projects. Students come together from a variety of majors to work in teams to develop their products and technologies. Many of this year’s finalists have our students from Electrical and Computer Engineering and Cybersecurity on their teams! Let’s see what they’ve been working on.

With the exponential rise in drone activity, safely managing low-flying airspace has become a major issue. Using a network of small, low-cost radars, engineering professor Cammy Peterson and her colleagues have built an air traffic control system for drones that can effectively and accurately track anything in an identified low-altitude airspace.