William T. Weldon

I am currently an Assistant Professor at Indiana State University, teaching Unmanned Systems courses, in the Bailey College of Engineering and Technology. I received my PhD at Purdue University in May of 2023. My research focused on the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Search and Rescue operations.

 

While at Purdue I created and taught multiple UAS courses, in addition to research. I developed and implemented a UAS fleet management system and dispatch section. In one semester this system allowed for 3,483 UAS training flights, 646 training flight hours. In addition to facilitating UAS flight training, this system increased safety, with the training aircraft (Mavic 2 Pros) needing propeller replaced every 158 flights and no aircraft damage.

 

I have also performed research with Aircraft Digital Twins, Augmented Reality training, and Machine Learning. Accompanying my research experience is a wide breadth of professional skills, and the ability to rapidly learn new skillsets. I have worked professionally as line service, managing air carrier maintenance records, baking professionally, developing courses and curriculum, running experiments, managing experiments, managing teams of up to 20 direct reports, and aircraft (unmanned and manned) fleet management.