NASA Aeronautics Supersonic Commercial Transport College Competition 2008-2009

U.S.–Team

1st Place (tie)

University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA

1st place winner UVA team group photo for the 2008 college design competition.

(L to R; Front row) Emily Baldwin, Christie Alston, Patrick O’Malley, Calvin Johnson (Back row) Seth Mclellan, Long Nguyen, Brian Rice, David Petkofsky, Jesse Quinlan (Not pictured: Gaetano Esposito, Arthur Fournie, Roy Hayes, Johannes Weppler).

The VA S.S.T Celeritas

1st Place (tie)

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

(L to R) (Front row): Metin Ozcan, Jeffrey Tanudji, Sarah Roloff, Rahul Ramanna, Anthony De Bartolo (Chief Engineer). (Back row) Hernando Jimenez (Technical Advisor). Dr. Stephane Dufresne (Technical Advisor). Logan Hamel (Project Manager), Shanel Staple (Not pictured: Haley Allen, Thomas Folk, Colin Leclercq, Dr. Dimitri Mavris (Faculty Advisor)

Small Supersonic Airliner

2nd Place (tie)

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; Chaffey College, Cucamonga, CA; University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

(L to R) Top row: Willie Costa (Chaffey College), Alex Lepage (University of Central Florida). Bottom row: Gary Redman (University of Technology, Sydney), Michael Newton (University of Technology, Sydney)

Artemis

Non U.S.–Team

1st Place

The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan

(L to R) Prof. Kenichi Rinoie, Tatsunori Yuhara, Tsubasa Tsujimoto

Hydrogen Fueled Low Boom SST

2nd Place

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology Gujarat, India

(L to R) Sahaj Panchal and Dhrumir Patel

RASTOFUST

NASA Intern Selections

Competition participants independently selected for internships at NASA Centers.

Student Name / City and State

Guillermo Costa / Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Thomas Folk / Atlanta, GA

Jonathan Friedmeyer / Findlay, OH

Kevin Holcomb, Jr. / Kent, OH

Michael McPeake / Port Townsend, WA

Allison Snyder / Pickerington, OH

Raul Telles / Brooklyn, NY

Andrew Wilson / Browntown, WI

*NOTE: Abstracts of the papers of the team competition winners are available upon request from Dr. Elizabeth Ward

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