Awards
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2024 AIAA Team Missile Systems Design Competition
First place overall | Team C.A.R.R.O.T.
2024 RASC-AL Competition Forum
First place overall | Virginia Tech, Project Draupnir
First place in theme, AI Powered Self-Replicating Probes | Virginia Tech, Project Draupnir
2024 AIAA Design, Build, Fly competition
Fourth place overall | Virginia Tech
Third place, design report | Virginia Tech
Excellence in Design of Aerospace and Ocean Vehicles and Systems
2024 Prize in Air Vehicle Design
Prestige Worldwide
2024 Prize in Ocean Vehicle Design
DDGVT-1
2024 Prize in Space Vehicle Design
Project Draupnir
2024 Prize in Launch Vehicle Design
C.A.R.R.O.T.
2024 Battle of the Rockets
Third place, Planetary Lander Rover Event | Gobble Rockets
Third place, Deployable Payload Event | Gobble Rockets
2023 3D Printed Aircraft Competition
Second place, Fixed Wing Category | Wavy plane
Altair Most Innovative Design, Fixed Wing Category | Blended plane
2023 NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts (RASC-AL)
Best presentation: Multi-Use Lunar Environment Cargo Carrier (MULE-CC)
2022-2023 Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition
Third place | Virginia Tech
2023 International Robotic Sailing Competition
Second place | SailBOT
Excellence in Design of Aerospace and Ocean Vehicles and Systems
2023 Prize in Air Vehicle Design
Mach Wave Industries "The Peregrine"
2023 Prize in Ocean Vehicle Design
Frigate Icebreaker
2022 Prize in Space Vehicle Design
ISS Commercial Propulsion Services
2023 Prize in Launch Vehicle Design
Frequent Fliers
2023 AIAA Design, Build, Fly competition
Fourth place | Virginia Tech
AIAA 2023 Region 1 Student Conference
Third place | 'System Design Review - Concept Generation for a Cost Efficient, Super-Heavy Launch Vehicle'
AIAA 2021-2022 Space Systems Design Competition
First place | 'Manned Sample Acquisition Mission to Phobos and Deimos' by Project Chariot
2021-22 NASA University Aeronautics Student Design Challenge
First place | WATR RAM by H2AERO
Second place | Iris Water Tanker by Project Iris
Third place | Pelican by Firefighting Gobbler
2022 3D Printed Aircraft Competition
Third place | Fixed Wing Category
2022 International Robotic Sailing Competition
Second place | SailBOT
Excellence in Design of Aerospace and Ocean Vehicles and Systems
2022 Prize in Air Vehicle Design
Project IRIS
2022 Prize in Ocean Vehicle Design
Green Sailboat
2022 Prize in Space Vehicle Design
Asteroid Utilization (A.U.) Diggers
2020-21 NASA University Student Design Challenge
Second place | STRATOS
Excellence in Design of Aerospace and Ocean Vehicles and Systems
2021 Prize in Air Vehicle Design
NHA Vanguard
2021 Prize in Ocean Vehicle Design
Sport Fishing Yacht
2021 Prize in Space Vehicle Design
MAV-1
2020 NASA Aeronautics Design Challenge
First place | Urban Air Mobility - Team AVIATE
2019-20 NASA Glenn University Student Design Challenge
First place | Project LAPIS (Create Robotic System to Explore Lava Tubes on the Moon for Human Habitation)
First place | Project Empyrean (Concept for First Real Interstellar Space Mission)
Excellence in Design of Aerospace and Ocean Vehicles and Systems
2020 Prize in Air Vehicle Design
The SWIFT-Jet by Chronos Aviation
2020 Prize in Ocean Vehicle Design
Surface Effect Patrol Ship
2020 Prize in Space Vehicle Design
Tie - Project Demeter (RASC-AL)
Project Hydra
2019 International Robotic Sailing Competition
Second place | SailBOT
2019 Collegiate Wind Competition
Second place | Wind Turbine Team
2018-19 NASA University Student Design Challenge
Second place | BESPIN
Excellence in Design of Aerospace and Ocean Vehicles and Systems
2019 Prize in Air Vehicle Design
LV-19 Mobula
2019 Prize in Ocean Vehicle Design
Coastal Defense Submarine
2019 Prize in Space Vehicle Design
Project Luna
2018 RASC-AL Mars Ice Challenge
Best Technical Paper / Lightest System Mass | Virginia Tech Ice Extractor (V-TIE)
Excellence in Design of Aerospace and Ocean Vehicles and Systems
2018 Prize in Air Vehicle Design
Tie - Team Design Build Fly
Team Hamster Works
2018 Prize in Ocean Vehicle Design
Future Surface Combatant
2018 Prize in Space Vehicle Design
Tie - NG SharkSat
Orbital ATK - "Gateway"
2018 U.S. Dept. of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition
Fourth place overall
First place | Technical Design
2018 AIAA Student Design Build Fly
Second place (out of 77)
2018 SAE Aero Design West
Third place | Advanced Class Oral Presentation
2017 NASA Aeronautics University Design Challenge
First place | Supersonic Challenge
2017 Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition
Ninth place (out of 115)
2017 NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts
First place overall
2016 AIAA Undergraduate Team Space Transportation Design Competition
First place
2015-2016 NASA University Design Challenge
Second place | Blitz Design
2015-2016 NASA University Design Challenge
Third place | Partior Q-1 Design
2014 RASC-AL Design Competition Forum
First place overall | Space Exploration—The Next Steps
2014 RASC-AL Design Competition Forum
First place, Undergraduate Division | Space Exploration—The Next Steps
2013 RASC-AL Design Competition Forum
First place overall | Space Exploration—The Next Steps
2013 RASC-AL Design Competition Forum
Best in theme | Space Exploration—The next steps
2013 NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition
Team participation | Virginia Technomaniacs
2013 ATK NASA Student Launch Projects
Excellence in the design, construction, and flight of a high-powered rocket and scientific payload
2013 SAE Aero Design East
Oral Presentation Award, Advance Class, Second Place
2011 NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition
Team participation
2011 AAS/AIAA/NASA/GSFC CanSat Competition
Second place
2007 AAS/AIAA/NASA/GSFC CanSat Competition
Third place
2006 NASA Aeronautics Student Competition
First tier | ORCA Team Project
2004 NASA FAA – Student Competition
Best overall entry, University Division
2003 NASA Revolutionary Vehicles Student Competition
First place, University Division
2002 General Aviation Programs Office – University Student Competition
Technology Innovation Category Award, second place
2001 NASA - FAA National General Aviation Design Competition
Honorable mention
2000 AIAA Engineers’ Week Outstanding Society
2000 NASA FAA National General Aviation Design Competition
First place
1998 NASA FAA National General Aviation Design Competition
First place
1998 Air Force Research Laboratory – National General Aviation Design Competition
Technology Transfer Award
1997 NASA FAA National General Aviation Design Competition
Third place