AIAA Foundation Announces Results of Its 2016-2017 Graduate Individual Aircraft Design Competition Written 25 August 2017

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AIAA Foundation Announces Results of Its Graduate Individual Aircraft Design Competition

 

September 6, 2017 – Reston, Va. – The 2016–2017 Aircraft Design Competition challenge was to design a Multi-Mission Amphibian Aircraft. The winning graduate students for this individual category were as follows:

 

The winners are:

 

  • First Place: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
    Student: Stanislav Karpuk
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Snorri Gudmundsson

  • Second Place: Purdue University
    Student: Geoffrey Andrews

 

Details of the Design Competition challenge can be found here.

“The AIAA design competitions give the students an opportunity to use their developing engineering skills to propose a solution to a real, state-of-the-art, and relevant engineering problem, said Danielle Soban, the competition’s head judge and lecturer in aerospace engineering at Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom. “The submissions are continuously of a very high standard, and competition for the top slots is very fierce. This attests to the hard work and talent of our next generation of engineers, as well as indicates the quality of our university-level engineering education and the dedication of our educators. We have a diverse group of volunteer judges from academia, industry and government who truly enjoy assessing the submissions and freely give of their time to do so.” Soban concluded: “This link between the current generation of aerospace engineers and the upcoming generation is one that makes the AIAA design competitions particularly relevant.”

For more information on the AIAA Foundation Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, please contact Rachel Dowdy at 703.264.7577 or racheld@aiaa.org or 703.264.7577.

 

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