Earlier this week, students from the aircraft senior design course concluded their capstone design curriculum by completing flights of the remotely-controlled aircraft models they designed and constructed this semester. The design curriculum began last semester in AERO 401 with the mathematical design process for a full-scale aircraft, and continued with the simulation, wind tunnel testing, construction, and flight of actual scale models of their design this semester in AERO 402.

It’s a unique approach to learning the process, aerospace engineering professor Dr. John Valasek says. “No other university in the United States has a class that deals with the entire process,” he said. “Our students design, test, simulate, build and fly their aircraft. Some other programs do most of it, but we’re the only one that does all five.”

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For more information about the aerospace capstone design process, read here: Senior Level Design