{"502061":{"#nid":"502061","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Teams Dominate 32nd Annual AHS Student Design Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Helicopter Society International recently announced that three GT-AE-based teams took home top honors and about $3,750 in prize money in the 32nd Annual Student Design Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll three teams worked remotely with fellow students from the Middle Eastern Technical University (METU) to submit the winning proposals in May of this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll together, we went up against 14 teams from around the world, all of them fierce competitors,\u201d said Dr. Daniel Schrage, the director of GT\u2019s Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence and a mentor for the 2015 teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to thank the Middle Eastern Technical University, in particular Dr. Ilkay Yavrucuk, for partnering with us. Their contributions were substantial.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDistributed Logistics in an Urban Setting Using Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles\u201d was the title of the 2015 AHS challenge, which tasked students to design a small, distributed logistics delivery vehicle and describe its role in a large logistics system concept. The Boeing Company provided $10,000 in prize money plus $2,000 in travel stipends.In the Undergraduate Division, AirBuzz, a quad tilt-rotor UAV, and HARETC (High Aspect Ratio Electric Tandem Concept)\u0026nbsp; took home first and third place respectively. Working on Airbuzz were Georgia Tech undergraduates David Andersen, Caitlin Berrigan, Mitchell Coleman, Chelsea Fuller, Thaddeus Johnson, Ohutoyan Shodiya, Jared Smith, Sean Sweeny and Sean Zimmett, as well as METU student Ali Karakaya. The GT students who worked on HARETC were Yuan Yao, Ben\u0026nbsp;Grisel, James L. DeMaria, Norquata D. Allen,\u0026nbsp;Charles Michael Ndonga, Asim Rahman, Tsu-way\u0026nbsp;Tseng and Meet J. Patel. The METU students on this project were Ali\u0026nbsp;Tevfik Buyukkocak,\u0026nbsp;Emre Aksoy, and Ozgur Serin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe design for the GTStork finished second place overall in the Graduate Division, earning a $1,250 prize and bragging rights for METU student Feyez Guner and GT graduate students Matthew Brown, Stephen Marone, Etienne Demers Bouchard, Akshay Pendharkar, Christopher Duffy, Benjamin England, Clifford Sircar, Atipat Wattanuntachai, Chong Zhou, and Zhihang Liu. It also won top honors in the optional Hardware Validation competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe AHS Student Design Competition challenges students to design a vertical lift aircraft that meets specified requirements. Each of the winning teams is awarded a cash stipend, while two members of each of the first-place winning teams are invited to AHS International\u2019s 72nd Annual Forum and Technology Display \u2013 to be held May 17-19, 2016 in West Palm Beach, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are lucky to have someone like Dan Schrage putting Georgia Tech\u0027s aerospace engineering school in the forefront of rotorcraft R\u0026amp;D and student development,\u0022 said Dr. Marilyn Smith, another faculty advisor to the design teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmith also had praise for the following faculty and staff who worked with the Georgia Tech and METU teams: Lakshmi Sankar, J.V.R. Prasad, Mike Roberts, Markus Cueva, Daniel Prosser, Sylvester Ashok, Gonenc Gursoy, Frank Patterson, Apinut Sirirojvisuth, and Vitali Volovoi.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The American Helicopter Society International recently announced that three GT-AE-based teams took home top honors and about $3,750 in prize money in the 32nd Annual Student Design Competition."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 14:26:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:46","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"129781","name":"AHS"},{"id":"171729","name":"Annual Student Design Competition"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}