AIAA Foundation Announces Results of Its 2016-2017 Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition Written 24 August 2017

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AIAA
John Blacksten
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September 6, 2017 – Reston, Va. – The 2016–2017 Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition challenge was to design a family of light business jets.

The winners are:

• First Place: Georgia Institute of Technology
  Team Name: Coronis
  Student Team Members: Daniel Wise, Avery Leonard, Katie Zhang, David Twibell, Michelle Ku, Pamir Sevincel, Thomas Rainey
  Faculty Advisor: Dr. Neil Weston, Carl Johnson


• Second Place: Georgia Institute of Technology
  Team Name: HAMMMR Designs
  Student Team Members: David C. Alman, Andrew R. M. Hoeft, Terry H. Ma, Cameron B. McMillian, Jagadeesh Movva, Christopher L. Rolince
  Faculty Advisor: Dr. Neil Weston, Carl Johnson
  


• Third Place (tie): California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  Team Name: JetBiz
  Student Team Members: Isaac Guzman, Nicole Curtis-Brown, Martha Njuguna, Jorge Rivera, Cristal Ruano-Ramirez, Fernando Sanchez, Luis Rodriquez, Juan Chang
  Faculty Advisor: Dr. Don Edberg


• Third Place (tie): California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  Team Name: Premier Flight Systems
  Student Team Members: Dylan Gomez, Danny Jierian, Phillip Chung, Caleb Duescher, Mitchell Sagely, David Smith, Kishan Patel
  Faculty Advisor: Grant Carichner

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.”

Learn more about the AIAA Foundation Design Competitions.

About the AIAA Foundation
The AIAA Foundation seeks to “make it exciting, make it empowering, and make it fun.” That simple, compelling philosophy drives the Foundation’s commitment to math, science, and technology education. The AIAA Foundation offers a wealth of resources to support educators from K–12 through university: scholarships, classroom grants, design competitions, and student conferences, improving scientific literacy and advancing the arts and sciences of aerospace. For more information on the AIAA Foundation and its programs for students, teachers, and professionals, please visit www.aiaafoundation.org.

About AIAA 
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world’s largest aerospace technical society. With nearly 30,000 individual members from 85 countries, and 95 corporate members, AIAA brings together industry, academia, and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense. For more information, www.aiaa.org, or follow us on Twitter @AIAA.

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