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This	Month's	Covers....
Front Cover: Drone quadcopter over city at night. iStock image by tiero.
The covers this month illustrate examples of low altitude use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for civilian tasks such as package delivery. The article by Leung and Rife on pages 4-14, "Refining Fault Trees Using Aviation Definitions for Consequence
Severity," introduces a method of fault tree analysis that refines the certification process for new aviation technologies like
unmanned aerial systems to better match FAA standards.
Our Student Research Highlight by Moraes, et al, on page 59 discusses a project that develops an autonomous UAV with sufficient load capacity to embed solutions for monitoring difficult to access environments.
Back cover: Pizza delivery by drone illustration. iStock image by mipan.

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