Autonomous Robotics Competition Club wins $30K at drone contest
Members of the Autonomous Robotics Competition Club, from left, Vitor Valente, Vidullan Surendran, Rachel Axten and Venkatakrishnan Iyer, display their drone at the Mid-State Regional Airport before competition organizers recorded its flight duration.
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Autonomous Robotics Competition Club wins $30K at drone contest
Mariah Chuprinski
July 20, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A team of Penn State aerospace engineering graduate students interested in unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, recently won third place at the First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge, taking home $30,000 in prize money.
Hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and sponsored by the United States Department of Commerce, the competition challenged more than 20 university and industry groups to design and build drones and the accompanying flight software. The competition focus
Wind Energy Club prepares to compete in Collegiate Wind Competition
Josh Forrest (left), senior aerospace engineering major, information sciences and technology minor, and president of the Wind Energy Club, and Eric Sarbacker, junior chemical engineering major, assemble a test wind turbine to prepare for the upcoming collegiate wind competition.
Image: Tyler Henderson
Wind Energy Club prepares to compete in Collegiate Wind Competition
Mariah Chuprinski
April 14, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Each year since 2014, the Penn State Wind Energy Club has competed in the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Collegiate Wind Competition, taking home more first place wins than any other team. With hard work, flexibility and new, creative designs, they plan to do the same this year.
IMAGE: Penn State College of Engineering
“Penn State has had a leadership role in the aerospace community for decades, and we have had a number of past Penn State aerospace department heads serve in this role,” Pritchett said. “I was delighted to be nominated and elected in January to be chair.”
While an independent entity, ADCA is affiliated with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and members meet annually at the institute’s SciTech conference.
In leading the association, Pritchett plans to look closely at the role and presence of women and people from underrepresented groups in the aerospace field. One of ADCA’s functions is to regularly collect statistics on higher education enrollment, initiatives and administration.
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