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| Title | School of Mines Takes First Place in Aero Design |
| Transcript | School of Mines News 501 E. Saint Joseph Street • Rapid City, SD 57701-3995 Phone: (605) 394-6082/2554 • Fax: (605) 394-6177 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2005 Contact: Steve Buchholz, Public Information Manager, 394-6082 School of Mines Takes First Place in Aero Design In just its fifth year of competition, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology captured first place in the Aero Design West remote-controlled airplane competition in Fort Worth, Texas. "This is like winning the NCAA championship, " team advisor Dr. Dan Dolan said as the team drove home Monday morning from the weekend competition. "This is absolutely awesome. It's truly something special." The School of Mines team spent months designing, building and testing the remote-controlled biplane that features a 5-foot wingspan. At the competition, the plane carried 19 pounds of added lead weight, the most of any of the nearly 40 teams, and placed third in design. When the judges tallied the total scores, the School of Mines finished atop the regular class and ahead of some of the best-known universities in the country. The School of Mines team also is bringing home the best team award and the traveling trophy that will remain on campus for the next year. "The team is just flying high, " Dolan said. "It's still sinking in. It's still sinking in to me. I woke up this morning and asked myself if I was dreaming." The team is expected to arrive on campus late Monday night. The team will display its airplane during the Senior Design Fair scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Surbeck Center Ballroom. Dolan credited the team's success, in part, to the Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and Production, also known as CAMP. Competition teams such as Aero Design fall under CAMP, a program that uses teams to offer an innovative engineering and science education and teach team-building and other skills students need and future employers want. "This is a typical good CAMP team, " Dolan said. "They really put everything together. Every student had a task and every student fulfilled those tasks flawlessly. The Aero Design team members really put their trust in each other. Everyone was willing to voice their opinions and when they had a problem, they worked through it until they reached a consensus. Every student felt like they belonged on the team." About AeroDesign: The Aero Design competition is intended to provide undergraduate and graduate engineering students with a real-life engineering exercise. The competition has been designed to provide exposure to the kinds of situations that engineers face in the real work environment. http://students.sae.org/competitions/aerodesign/west/ #30# |
| Creator | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. University Relations; |
| Subject | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; |
| Local Subject | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Aero Design
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| Digital Publisher | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Devereaux Library
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| Contributors | Buchholz, Steve; |
| Date | 2005-04-25 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Language | eng |
| Relation | Is part of Office of University Relations SDSM&T News Collection |
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| Submitting Institution | Devereaux Library. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| CONTENTdm number | 7069 |
| CONTENTdm file name | 7908.pdf |
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