Student Projects in the Advanced Engineering Design Lab

3D Printed Aircraft Team

Competition: 3DPAC National, Arlington Texas
Goal: To 3D print a fixed wing aircraft and participate in endurance type events.
Website

inVenTs Rocketry

Competition: NASA's Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition, North Branch, Minnesota.
Goal: CEED affiliated robotics team utilizing cost/fuel-efficient rocket systems.
Website

Mars Madness

Competition: NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge, NASA Florida.
Goal: To build a human powered rover suitable for rough Martian terrain.
Website

NASA Student Launch Initiative

Competition: NASA Student Launch.
Goal: To provide relevant, cost-effective rocket propulsion systems.
Website

Orbital Launch Vehicle Team

Goal: Initially to fly a rocket pass the Karman Line (100 km altitude) and then to place a satellite into low Earth orbit.
Website

Three students carry a rocket on their shoulders.

Rocketry@VT

Competition: Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition and Spaceport America Cup, New Mexico.
Goal: To launch a 10 lb payload to 10,000 feet altitude.
Website

A solar panel ready to be tested in a thermal vacuum chamber

RockSAT-X@VT

Goal: To launch a modular payload aboard a sounding rocket to advance cost-effective access to space for university student design teams.
Website

SEDs Rocketry

Competition: University Student Rocketry Challenge
Goal: To design build and launch a multi-stage rocket to the highest possible altitude.
Website

A student works on the mars ice challenge project.

VT Mars Ice Challenge

Competition: Mars Ice Challenge, Hampton, Virginia.
Goal: Design/build a Mars rover prototype to retrieve water from subsurface ice.
Website

Wind Turbine Team

Competition: Collegiate Wind Competition
Goal: To build, market, and select a mock implementation location for a viable wind turbine.
Website