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AWARDS RECOGNIZE REVOLUTIONARY VEHICLE CONCEPTS
Future forms of air travel will require a multi-disciplinary,
multi-faceted approach. Those who will design the next-generation
of aircraft are in the nation’s university and pre-college
classrooms today. To stimulate this next generation of explorers,
NASA has engaged these future professionals in a broad-based
competition for both high school and college students.
NASA Langley Research Center's Aerospace Vehicle Systems
Technology Office (AVSTO) will award three prizes recognizing
revolutionary aerospace vehicle concepts at the Experimental
Aircraft Association's AirVenture 2003 in Oshkosh, Wis., August 2,
2003.
- The top-scoring entry was submitted by a team of undergraduate
students from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
and their undergraduate partners from Loughborough University in
the United Kingdom for a hydrogen-fuel-cell powered, all-electric
personal air vehicle titled "Liberty."
- Second place will be awarded to a team of undergraduates from
the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Campus, for
their box-wing, diesel engine personal air vehicle entry called
"Defiant."
- A University of Kansas Industrial Design team of undergraduates
won third place for an innovative interior design for an
autonomously piloted general aviation aircraft.
Honorable mention awards will be presented to:
- Simon Levine, a graduate student from Georgia Institute of
Technology, for a turbofan engine concept
- A University of Virginia undergraduate team for a supersonic
vehicle concept
- Henry Won, a Georgia Tech graduate student for a study of
flapping wings
- A team of undergraduate engineering students from Montana State
University for a rotorcraft concept vehicle
- A graduate and undergraduate team from Ohio University for a
personal air vehicle concept
The winning teams, and those that received honorable mention,
will present overviews of their projects at the NASA forums on
Saturday, August 2, at 8:30 a.m., at Air Venture 2003, Oshkosh,
Wis. For additional information, call Bill Uher at
757/344-6811.
Winners were determined by a group of reviewers from NASA’s
Langley and Glenn Research Centers and Pratt & Whitney. The
teams will receive awards ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 through
Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Va.
The 2003 student competition, including the high school
division, brought in participants from 19 different states and
involved hundreds of students and teachers. Pratt & Whitney and
NASA Glenn Research Center's Quiet, Green Aircraft Propulsion
Project have committed to sponsoring a second competition with
AVSTO this fall.
For more information about NASA's Design Competition, please
contact Elizabeth Ward at 757/864-7638 or visit the website at:
http://avst.larc.nasa.gov/competitions.html
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