Premiere/Premier; Hardy/Hearty; Forward/Foreword; Isotope/ISA-TOPE; and Other Homonyms
Webster’s online dictionary defines an isotope as: “ any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties” ( “Isotope ”). One way the Transportation Center of Excellence (TCOE) would modify that definition for ISA-TOPE is: any of two or more types of autonomous vehicles with the same general components and similar function of autonomous automobiles but on vehicles of higher mass and unique functionality. ISA-TOPE is actually an acronym that stands for I nnovative, S emi- A utonomous T rucks and O ff-highway P owered E quipment. It is an acronym that was coined and used in the submission of an NSF grant by the TCOE that was recently awarded. We now begin the work of the project. The project has 5 main deliverables: A training schedule and program for at least 8 OEM ISA-TOPE Professional Development training sessions A collec