My colleagues Dr. Aidan Browne and Jim Conrad recently had their paper on robotics education efforts published in IEEE Access. This work spanned multiple years and was supported by the Department of Labor Mission Critical Operations Grant.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7890432/
Aidan and Jim also had success at this year’s NASA Robotic Mining Competition, where the team earned the 3rd place award for automation.