Piloting UAVs is becoming a serious profession with university degree program: the Mil & Aero Video Blog

VIDEO BLOG, 12 April 2011. The course of study might be a little different from pursuing a business or engineering degree, yet students at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D., is offering a degree program in piloting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in partnership with L3 Link Simulation & Training. Military & Aerospace Electronics Executive Editor John McHale reports.

See also:

-- I wanna go to UAV school;

-- Ground control stations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming networking-hub cockpits on the ground for U.S. unmanned forces;

-- UAV market outlook strong;

-- The UAV video problem: using streaming video with unmanned aerial vehicles;

-- UAV designers eye open-systems common UAV ground control stations able to operate several different unmanned aircraft;

-- Navy UCLASS program to develop carrier-based unmanned aircraft with surveillance and strike capability by 2018; and

-- Navy seeks to develop collision-avoidance system to enable UAVs to operate in civil airspace.