Student Design Achievement

 Outstanding KUAE Student Performance 2012-20

  1. First Place Winner, AIAA 2017 International Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, Desprüngdarcost Aerospace Tachion Business Jet Series, Marwan Dessouki, Italo Costa, Drew Darrah, Martin Mendoza, Riley Sprunger, Michael Moschetti, Taylor George, Kyle Herda, Megan Burns, Yizi Zhou. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  2. First Place Winner, AIAA 2017 Undergraduate Jet Engine Design, “High Efficiency Turboprop for Single-Engine Aircraft,” Thomas Row, Elliot Bicker, Alex Carnoali, Antonio Schoneich, Austin Tuggle, Christopher Bynum, Cody Hill, Juan Castro, Libby Stoops. (Advisors Prof. Saeed Farokhi and Prof. Ray Taghavi)
  3. First Place Winner, AIAA 2017 Undergraduate Spacecraft Design, “Mars Orbiter Operating Near Satellites,” Bailey Miller, Arno Prinsloo, Brian Frew, Brooke Reid, Colin Murphy, Conner Murphy, Philip Guzman. (Advisor Assoc. Prof. Mark Ewing)
  4. First Place Winner, AIAA 2016 International Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, "Screaming Dingos Aerobatic Aircraft," Riley Sprunger, Joel Eppler, Jefferson Vlasnik, Taylor George, Cameron Clanchy, Justin Fox, Michael Gritsch, Joel Kennedy, Liam Murphy. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  5. First Place Winner, AIAA 2016 Undergraduate Team Engine Design, “TF-CLAWS: Candidate Low-Bypass, Mixed-Flow Turbofan Engine for a Next Generation Trainer,” Kyle Thompson, Daniel Fought, Charles Yeo, Timothy Luna, Weiting Liu, Zachary Smith. (Advisors Prof. Saeed Farokhi and Prof. Ray Taghavi).
  6. Top Three, NASA/NIA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage, 2016,  “ARTEMISS,” Robert LaRue, Ian Sheppard, Olivia Armstrong, Kyri Barton, John Ink, Brian Frew, Laurissa Marcotte, Brooke Reid, Colin Murphy, Sebastian Thomas. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  7. First Place Winner, Wing-in-Ground Effect Aircraft/Power Electronics Systems and Applications (PESA) 2015 International Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, Hong Kong. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  8. First Place Winner, AIAA 2014 International Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, "Design and Analysis of the Jayhawk Economic Turboprop Transport (J.E.T.T)”, Brandon Basgall, Katie Constant, Eleazar Lachino, Adrian Lee, Emily Thompson, Alejandra Escalera. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  9. Third Place Winner, AIAA 2014 International Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, "Preliminary Design of the Dragonfly," Ryan Evans, Nathan Smith, Ryan Su, Yinglong Xu, Luiz Toledo. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  10. First Place Winner, AIAA 2014 International Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, "Supersonic Multi-Utility Aeroelastic Reconfigurable Test-bed," Malcom Brown, Koen van de Kerkhof, Raphael Klein, Martijn Roelofs, Niels Singh, Daan Westerveld. (Advisors Prof. Ron Barrett and Prof. Roelof Vos)
  11. First Place Winner, AIAA/ASME International Gas Turbine Institute International 2014 Team Engine Design Competition, Samuel Cott, Adrian Lee, Sunayan Mullick, Alex Sizemore. (Advisor Prof. Saeed Farokhi)
  12. Second Place Winner, AIAA 2014 International Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, "The Delta Spike, Supersonic Multi-Use Technology Test-bed," James Sellers, Julian McCafferty, Katie Constant, Adam D'Silva, Richard Bramlette. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  13. Second Place Winner, AIAA 2014 International Undergraduate Individual Aircraft Design Competition, "Preliminary Design of the Spica Nox Jet Trainer," Alejandra Escalera. (Advisor Ron Barrett)
  14. Second Place Winner, AIAA/ASME International Gas Turbine Institute International 2014 Team Engine Design Competition, Sean Derry, Tondi Kambarami, Mary Pat Whittaker, YingLong Xu. (Advisor Prof. Saeed Farokhi)
  15. Third Place Winner, AIAA 2014 International Undergraduate Individual Aircraft Design Competition, "Design and Analysis of the Pegasus Jet Trainer," Eleazar Lachino. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  16. Third Place Winner, AIAA 2014 Undergraduate Aircraft Team Design Competition, Ryan Evans, Luiz Toledo, Nathan Smith, Ryan Su, Yinglong Xu. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  17. Third Place Winner, AIAA 2014 Team Space Transportation Design Competition, Luis Berges, Will Burg, Julian McCafferty, James Sellers, Alex Sizemore. (Advisor Prof. Mark Ewing)
  18. Second Place Winner, U.S. Department of Energy Inaugural Wind Energy Competition, 2014, Katie Constant, Alejandra Escalera-Mendoza, Julian McCafferty, James Sellers, Alex Sizemore, Emily Thompson, Mary Whittaker. (Advisor Prof. Richard Hale)
  19. First Place Winner, AIAA 2013 International Undergraduate Aircraft Design Competition, Raphael Klein, "High Endurance Lightweight Program," (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  20. First Place Winner, AIAA 2013 Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, Amir Bachelani, Julian Bettoni, Stuart Hunsinger, Kirill Nadtochiy, Graham Ray, Trevor Schlieper, Samantha Schueler. (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  21. Second Place Winner, AIAA 2013 Undergraduate Aircraft Design Competition, Joshua Holland and Steven Brust, "Rukh HALE UAV," (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  22. Second Place Winner, AIAA 2013 Undergraduate Team Space Transport Design Competition, "Jay Hopper Reusable Launch System,” Jordan Ashley, Hanna Cosgrove, Samona Estwick, Ben Hofmeier, Chris Melvin, Phi Nguyen, Alex Polsey, Matt Vestal. (Advisor Prof. Mark Ewing)
  23. Second Place Winner, 2013 AIAA/IGTI Team Engine Competition, "DASH 10k:  An Improved Turbofan Engine for a High Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Air Vehicle,” Adam D'Silva, Kanin Homsrivaronon, Shina Gupta, Abishek Chakrabarti. (Advisor Prof. Saeed Farokhi)
  24. Third Place Winner, AIAA 2013 Undergraduate Aircraft Design Competition, Malcom Brown, "Sky-i," (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  25. First Place Winner, AIAA 2012 Undergraduate Aircraft Design Competition, Samantha Schueler, "Cratus," (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  26. First Place Winner, 2012 AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Daniel Prather, William VanSkike, Matthew Williams, Aditya Ghate. (Advisor Prof. Saeed Farokhi)
  27. Second Place Winner, AIAA 2012 International Undergraduate Aircraft Design Competition, Jorrit Vervoordeldonk, "Renosaur," (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  28. Third Place Winner, AIAA 2012 Undergraduate Aircraft Design Competition, Alex Lopez, "Atlas RX," (Advisor Prof. Ron Barrett)
  29. Third Place Winner, 2012 AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Ryan Schirmer, Sarah Elizabeth McCandless, presenter at the Joint Propulsion Conference, Justin Howard, Jin Seong Kim.(Advisor Prof. Saeed Farokhi)