Senior Aircraft Design II comes to a close once again, culminating in an end-of-year fly-off. Congratulations to all of these hard-working seniors on their final senior capstone project. Hear what a couple of them had to say about their experience: “This past year, our team learned the process of aircraft design by doing it. It started with receiving a mission and a set of requirements. We went from picking a baseline kit, to modifying the model and fitting it for mission, to designing and manufacturing our own wing and empennage, to soldering and wiring our control systems, to developing a Concept of Operations mission profile, to seeing our plane successfully fly the mission! There were many design reports and presentations along the way, as well as many long days and late nights. Many thanks to Professor Greg Zwernemann, to our pilot Mark Maughmer II Maughmer, and our TAs for teaching us how to solve problems and make an aircraft fly. By learning to work together to tackle this time-crunched project, we’re each ready for takeoff on our own journeys.” - Maria Gibbs, Team VorTX “Despite some unpredicted setbacks with hardware, the fly-off was a success! We dropped our care package closest to the target. It was so rewarding to see the past year's work come to fruition in the air.” - Annie Amhrein, The Wrong Brothers Team View more photos of this year's fly-off: https://lnkd.in/gvnJJ4VR #FlyOff #SeniorAircraftDesign #TexasEngineering #WhatStartsHere
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🚀 Rise & Fly! Join the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin for light refreshments and a celebration to honor our Fall 2023 and Spring/Summer 2024 ASE, COE and EM graduates. Friday, May 10, 2024 10 AM - 12 PM Aerospace Engineering Building, McKnight Student Center RSVP by May 3: https://lnkd.in/g-KuS3cV We can't wait to celebrate with you and your loved ones and hope to see you there! 🎓 🤘
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We're looking forward to celebrating our new graduates tomorrow, May 10 from 10 AM - 12 PM in the McKnight Student Center! 🎓 🤘
🚀 Rise & Fly! Join the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin for light refreshments and a celebration to honor our Fall 2023 and Spring/Summer 2024 ASE, COE and EM graduates. Friday, May 10, 2024 10 AM - 12 PM Aerospace Engineering Building, McKnight Student Center RSVP by May 3: https://lnkd.in/g-KuS3cV We can't wait to celebrate with you and your loved ones and hope to see you there! 🎓 🤘
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🎓Y’all made it! Horns up for our Class of 2024 graduates. We can’t wait to see you go out and change the world. Remember to tag us in your commencement celebration photos and use #CockrellGrad in all your posts for a chance to be featured. Once again, congratulations to all our new graduates. #TheSkyIsNotTheLimit! 🚀🤘 #AerospaceEngineering #ComputationalEngineering #EngineeringMechanics #TexasEngineering #WhatStartsHere Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin | University of Texas Center for Space Research
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🐿 🐦 What do flying squirrels and dodo birds have in common? Why senior aircraft design, of course! Wings (or Horns!) up to two teams of aerospace and computational engineering seniors who successfully completed their end-of-year fly-off as part of the Senior Aircraft Design II capstone course. Both teams were tasked with designing and modifying a Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (TDV) according to the requirements specified in their Request for Proposals provided by their customer. This culminated in a fly-off where students showcased their vehicle in a basic search-survey-deliver mission for a severe storm scenario on April 29 at the Austin Radio Control Association field in Austin. 🔩 Team Wing Nuts (refers to the manufacturing part and their flying squirrel mascot), named its aircraft MB (the name’s meaning remains classified). MB was five pounds under the 20 lb. max., two feet under the 10 ft. max. wingspan, took off in only 110 feet out of the 200 ft. max. take-off roll, and they completed the mission in 41 one minutes, 4 minutes under the requirement. Wing Nuts POV: “This experience taught us how to work in cross-functional teams and how to adhere to deadlines set by customers. It was particularly difficult during the manufacturing phase since we made so many modifications to our air vehicle. It also gave us a really good idea of the entire industry process, from Preliminary Design Reviews showcasing our initial ideas and findings to the Competitive Fly-off where we demonstrate everything we've been working towards for the entire year.” - Miguel Angel Gonzalez, B.S. ASE, ‘24 📲 Team Airplane Mode (function for cellular devices before take-off), named their aircraft Dodo (an extinct flightless bird). Students joked that they could switch it to "Airplane Mode" so that it could fly and during some later test flights, they started to wish they had a button like that, but with hard work and dedication, their Dodo bird successfully took to the skies once more. Airplane Mode POV: “From navigating team dynamics, communication, scheduling, design, trade studies, taking a design from the computer to a physical product, and the daunting quest that is flight testing, we've gotten our feet wet with a lot of the processes we will see in industry. The entire class is effectively an undergrad-friendly contract battle between the students.” - Ryker E. Bendewald, B.S. ASE ‘24 🛫 Both teams completely re-engineered the wings, the empennage, the propulsion system, and specifically in Wing Nuts' case, re-designed the landing gear configuration from a taildragger to a tricycle. 💻 This was also the first year that COE teams were "subcontracted" to the ASE teams where they created a software package that introduced several autonomous functions for the aircraft, ranging from flight pathing to target identification and payload trajectory calculations. Congrats to all of these seniors on their success! 🤘
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