AeroMIT -SAE AeroDesign contest
March 23, 2023
We are proud to announce that our student project team called AeroMIT has secured an overall 4th position at the SAE AeroDesign contest held at Lakeland, Florida, USA, coming behind only to some very strong teams such as Georgia Tech (USA) and the University of Warsaw (Poland).
SAE Aero Design is an annual collegiate design series event held by SAE International, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks division in the United States. Team AeroMIT has been participating in this event for the past 7 years. After achieving World Rank #2 in the Aero Design WEST competition last year, this year, the team attended the Aero Design EAST competition, which was more challenging and had a higher participation rate.
Team Achievements (Rankings obtained by the Team in different streams of the competition):
World Rank #4 Overall
#2 in Design Report
#4 in Technical Presentation
#4 in Mission Performance
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