AIAA Foundation Announces Winner of its 2013 - 2014 Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition Written 15 September 2014

September 15, 2014 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation is pleased to announce the results of its annual Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition.

The 2013 – 2014 competition challenged teams to design a supersonic multi-utility technology test bed.

The winners are:

• First prize: Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, for their design “SMART: SupersonicMulti-utility Aeroelastic Reconfigurable Test-bed.”Team members: Malcom Brown, Koen van de Kerkhof, Raphael Klein, Martijn Roelofs, Niels Singh and Daan Westerveld. Ron Barrett and Roelof Vos, faculty advisors. The team will receive an award of $500 from the AIAA Foundation.


• Second prize: University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, for their design “Delta Spike.”Team members: Richard Bramlette, Katie Constant, Adam D’Silva, Julian McCafferty and James Sellers. Ron Barrett, faculty advisor. The team will receive an award of $250 from the AIAA Foundation.


• Third prize: “Team Petrodyne Aerospace,” The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, for their design “Modular Aircraft for Supersonic Technology Research (MASTER).”Team members: Giada Abate, Mathilde Deveraux, Brett Hiller, Emmanuel Lacouture, Tejas Puranik and Christopher Sandwich. Dimitri Mavris, faculty advisor and Daniel Cooksey, project advisor. The team will receive an award of $125 form the AIAA Foundation.