AIAA Foundation Announces Results of Its 2016-2017 Undergraduate Team Engine Design Competition Written 25 August 2017
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John Blacksten
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September 6, 2017 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of its 2016–2017 AIAA Foundation Undergraduate Team Engine Design Competition, which was awarded at the recent AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum in Atlanta.
The 2016–2017 Undergraduate Team Engine Design Competition challenge was to design a Next Generation Single-Engine Turboprop Aircraft. The undergraduate winning teams for this category were:
- First Place: The University of Kansas
Team Name: Aero Mob Propulsion Division
Student Team Members: Thomas Row, Elliot Bicker, Austin Tuggle, Elizabeth Stoops, Alex Carnoali, Antonio Schoneich, Cody Hill, Christopher Bynum, Juan Castro
Faculty Advisor: Saeed Farokhi, Ray Taghavi - Beihang University, China
Team Name: J.J. Fly
Student Team Members: Zhang Yingao, Wen Mengyang, and Wang Haonan
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Chih-Jen Sung - Third Place: VIT University, India
Team Name: SEDS-VIT
Student Team Members: Badriveer Thota, Neelesh Katoch, Dhruv Vijapuri, Naman Soni, Anushka Vargantwar, Nitin Ramseshan, Keshu Jat
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Bibin John
Details of the Design Competition challenge can be found here.
“The annual Team Engine competition is a vital function of AIAA and the Air Breathing Propulsion Committee Branch,” said Jimmy Tai, engineering manager at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the competition’s organizer.
Tai concluded, “All of the judges said that they were extremely impressed with both the engineering quality and professional presentation of the entries received. We look forward to building this competition in the future to include more international participation and increase the number of first-time participants.”
Learn more about the AIAA Foundation Design Competitions.
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