Chad Brummett is a multi-talented journalist, actor, and musician. He is a multi-Emmy Award winning Documentary Journalist and anchor at KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His innate gifts in music and theater are woven into his journalism story. Chad also hosts his own series’ “New Mexico Frontiers and Aventura,” which has already garnered 5 regional Emmy nominations and 1 statue.
While Chad is in his final year of earning his Master’s degree in Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Alabama, he admits to being a mostly “self-taught journalist” whose passion for broadcast news came out of his love for theater. Chad began his undergraduate degree in 1997 at the University of New Mexico, pursuing a Bachelor’s in Theater with an emphasis in acting.
During his undergraduate time, he worked on such productions as “Hamlet,” “Wait Until Dark,” “The Oresteia Trilogy,” “Hair,” “Suburbia,” and “The Velocity of Gary,” among other shows. After earning his undergrad, he did what millions of aspiring actors do: he headed west to Los Angeles. During his time there, he expanded his experience in Shakespeare, appearing as Petruchio in “Taming of the Shrew,” and Malcolm et. al in “Macbeth.”
However, he found it difficult to break into the world of film and television in L.A. After a year in the City of Angels, opportunities in New Mexico’s film industry began to develop, thanks to the state’s incentive program for production, so he headed back to his home state where he worked with the award-winning Tricklock Theater Company. He joined SAG-AFTRA in 2006 after booking on the tv shows, “Wildfire,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” and the James Mangold remake of “3:10 to Yuma,” starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale.
In 2016, he created the docu-series “Legendary New Mexico,” which told the stories of people and events that made the state iconic. He kept the show on air for more than four years, becoming a solo endeavor in mid-2018. As part of his degree work in Journalism and Media Studies, he’s focused on contemporary issues in journalism, particularly systemic bias in media organizations.
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His capstone documentary feature will study systemic racism within media when it comes to missing and murdered indigenous women. His hope is to take the feature beyond graduate school, seeking appearances in film festivals and potential distribution. He earned his first Regional Emmy® nominations in 2019, walking away with his first statue for editing on the series. Chad has also received four “Excellence in Broadcasting” awards from the New Mexico Broadcaster’s Association for his work on “Legendary New Mexico” and “New Mexico Living.” He was honored in Albuquerque in The Magazine’s “Best of The City” Top 5 for television personality.
Off the clock, Chad still enjoys playing guitar and singing from time to time. His golf score would be better suited for bowling, but he’s still an avid fan of the game. He’s an avid reader of non-fiction work, particularly when it comes to history, journalism, politics, and true crime.
New Mexico Tech: A Hub for Drone Technology
New Mexico Tech is positioning itself as a central hub for drone technology development and training. The focus is not only on piloting and operating drones but also on the engineering and design aspects.
Dr. Chad Brummett, in an interview on the New Mexico Frontiers Digital Show, highlighted the efforts to establish New Mexico Tech as a drone hub for education and research. Since 2018, he has been working towards this goal. He has initiated a K12 drone program that around 200 middle school and high school students through a different like STEM programs across the state with all summer seminar classes that we are offering during the summer for high school kids.
They have been educated how to design and build drones around 120 teachers across the state through our Master of Science for teacher program as well as in the collaboration with the. New Mexico Mesa program, they have been trained how to design and build drones and around 400 undergraduate students. Last seven years they have been educated and currently I have in the past and currently I have around 40 masters and PhD students that they have been involved and they have done projects in the area of the drone technology, biometry and planetary exploration.
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Currently my lab I have around 8 PhD students and 12 masters and around 100 Undergraduate students that have been involved with this research overall across the campus. Since the nature of research is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, students from various departments such as biology, biotechnology, electrical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, mineral engineering, and petroleum are involved.
Creating a Drone Major and Facility
There is an effort to build a drone major that can connect community colleges and collaborate with other colleges across the state. This aims to create a pathway for future generations of students to enter the aerospace industry in New Mexico.
Besides this, the aim is to curate a drone facility at New Mexico Tech, having a netted drone cage as well as a building with internal cage that we can fly any types of drones without worrying about the FHA rules because that's considered as. Indoor and create this capacity here.
New Mexico is considered an aerospace state, and from an economic development perspective, creating the capacity to prepare the workforce for this industry is a key focus.
The technology's multidisciplinary nature and diverse applications, including wildlife search and rescue and deep space exploration, hold immense potential. The state stands poised to be the epicenter of drone technology innovation.
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Bio-Inspiration and Biomimicry in Drone Design
Evolution Challenged by Hummingbirds Hover - Biomimicry for Drones. BioGraphic. Creation Evidence.
The concept of bio-inspiration and biomimicry plays a significant role in the drone technology program. Animals and plants, optimized through millions of years of evolution, offer valuable insights for design.
One project involved middle school students studying penguin coloration to understand how it helps them save energy while swimming. This knowledge is being applied to develop heat management systems for buildings in extreme conditions or future habitats on Mars.
Learning from iconic creatures and cultural symbols, such as the Phoenix, is another avenue of exploration. Examining the feathers of mythical birds could reveal unique properties for developing new technologies.
Crazy Adaptations: Jellyfish-Inspired Drones and Autotomy
One concept involves a jellyfish-inspired drone that mimics the locomotion of jellyfish in water to float and fly in the air. Another project draws inspiration from the autotomy of lizards, where they sacrifice their tail to escape danger.
The inspiration I we got from this is that imagine we have a drone that a part is damaged. And it can be separated to a smaller drone and make a swarm. So that was an inspiration we got from the tail of the separate. The tale of the lizard to develop a drone that's basically five different micro aerial vehicle attached together.
They're all flying as A1 single drone, which we call it UAV or Armand aerial vehicle. And if a part is damaged or some something happens to that this can discard that separate it to smaller drones. So that has been one of these projects that we inspire from the lizards, but lizards is not flying, but as another inspiration we got from this
A new project focuses on snow structures and their aerodynamics to develop snow-inspired micro drones. They are trying to increase their drug so they can stay longer in the air because the air is more denser, it's colder. So now we have been trying to develop a snow inspired micro drones that they get their shape from the snow.
Get Involved
Those interested in following the developments at New Mexico Tech or enrolling in the program are welcome to visit the drone room at New Mexico Tech. It's open all the time and anybody interested is welcome to come to New Mexico Tech and we can have the tool of offer facilities.
Future projects involve using taxidermy specimens of snakes, frogs, and lizards to study their climbing and jumping mechanisms, continuing the innovative work in drone technology.
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