The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Fundamental Aeronautics Program is pleased to announce the winners of the
2008 University Student Competition.

US Winners 2007-2008

First Place, Graduate Team:  Designing the Next DC-3:  Conceptual Design for the Future

Georgia Institute of Technology (8 person team)
Bryan Boiling
Alexis Brugere
Steve Gatto
Kevin Johnson
Kemp Kernstine
Mathieu Lanusse
Andrew Masse, Undergraduate student
Keith Turner


First Place, Undergraduate Team:  STINGRAE

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (6 person team)
Bakar Bey
Mike Fifer
Jon Frankenfield
Mike Lurie
Stephen Pace
Cabin Samuels


Second Place, Undergraduate Team: The 2058 Aircraft:  Quiet Ultra-Efficient Integrated Aircraft (QUEIA)

University of Miami (4 person team)
Sebastian Aspe
Joseph Dussling
Nicholas Heinz
Daniel Martinez

Third place, Undergraduate Team: Design of a STOL Transport Jet

Ohio State University (8 person team)
Robert Craun
Kevin J. Disotell
Nachiket Deshpande
Matthew Hansen
Alvaro Hernandez
Kevin Holcomb
Stephen Norris
Maria Tolstykh


Honorable Mention:  X-TS Advanced Multirole Aircraft

University of Central Florida
Alexander LePage and Christopher Richards
Senior Undergraduates


Honorable Mention:  Aerial Utility and Commercial Transport Vehicle

Chaffey College; Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Guillermo J. Costa, Second-year Undergraduate

 

International Winners:

First place:  Oionos 43 33:  A conceptual aircraft for 2058

University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Gary Redman, Undergraduate
Mr. N. Williams, Faculty Advisor

 

Second Place: Design of Transport Aircraft for the Future

Anna University, College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Anusha R and Srinath S, Undergraduates
Dr. E. Natarajan, Faculty Advisor

 

Internship Winners 2007-2008

Ohio State University:
Robert Craun (Ames Research Center)
Natchiket Deshpande (Glenn Research Center)
Kevin Holcomb, Jr. (Glenn Research Center)

University of Miami
Nicholas R. Heinz (Langley Research Center)

University of Central Florida
Alexander R. LePage (Langley Research Center)

Chaffey College
Guillermo Costa (Dryden Flight Research Center)

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RELEASE: 08-168

COLLEGE STUDENTS DESIGN FUTURE AIRCRAFT IN NASA COMPETITION

HAMPTON, Va. -- Sixty-one students from 14 colleges and universities
around the globe have imagined what the next generation of airliners
and cargo planes may look like.

Fourteen teams and two individual students submitted their designs in
the annual competition sponsored by NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics
Program, part of the agency's Aeronautics Research Mission
Directorate.

The highest scoring graduate team was from Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
Undergraduate team honors went to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

The contest asked students to create a future subsonic transport
aircraft that could carry up to 50,000 pounds, operate on runways
between 1,500 and 3,000 feet long, and cruise at speeds between 595
and 625 mph - about the average speed of airliners today. The
competition also stressed that concept planes should use alternative
fuels and be quieter and more environmentally friendly than today's
commercial fleet.

"The nation's air transportation system is under tremendous pressure
to increase performance and capacity without causing additional
damage to the environment," said Juan Alonso, director of the
Fundamental Aeronautics Program. "Through competitions such as this,
we are nurturing a new generation of engineers who can deliver the
solutions we so desperately need."

The judges graded the designs on criteria including creativity and
imagination, feasibility and cost analysis, and comprehensive
discussion of design concept.

"The invention, imagination and engineering exhibited in these college
proposals was extraordinary, and in parts superior to the concepts
prevalent in the current professional literature. These entries bode
well for the future of civilian aeronautics," said Dennis Bushnell,
chief scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
Bushnell was one of several NASA experts who judged the competition.

As part of the competition, six U.S. students received a 10-week paid
summer internship at one of four NASA research centers around the
country. Non-U.S. student winners received an engraved trophy and
certificate.

Sponsors are already planning next year's competition, which will be
announced by the end of this summer.

A complete list of winners of the college contest can be found at:

http://aero.larc.nasa.gov

For more information about NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission
Directorate, visit:

http://aeronautics.nasa.gov

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

 

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