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The DETC Newsletter is published semi-annually. Please direct comments and contributions to: DETC Chair: Chuck Hall [email protected] Editor: Lisa Saam [email protected]

Design Engineering Technical Committee Newsletter Page 1 DETC Calendar DETC Meeting (2) SciTech 2017 January 9-13, 2017 Design, Build, Fly Tucson, AZ April 20-23, 2017 DETC Meeting (1) Aviation 2017 June 5-9, 2017

Design Engineering Technical Committee Newsletter Page 2 based on a combination of the formal report The Design, Build, Fly score and scores earned for the three flight (DBF) contest is co- missions and ground mission. sponsored by the DETC, the Applied Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design, and Flight Test For more information, please visit: Technical Committees, www.aiaadbf.org and the AIAA Foundation. The contest provides a real-world aircraft design Aviation 2016 Session Winner experience for engineering students by giving The DETC hosted one technical session at the them the opportunity to validate their 2016 AIAA Aviation Forum held June 13th analytical studies. The DETC awards a Best through 17th in Washington, D.C. The single Paper Award for the team that submits the session held was titled Design Engineering. highest-scoring paper and also provides ten DETC members were on hand at the session to copies of the DETC’s Aerospace Design judge the presentations and select a best paper Engineers Guide to the top ten teams. winner. The presenters were judged based on several criteria including knowledge of subject, ability to answer questions, and presentation style. All six scheduled participants presented in a session that was well attended. The award winner was Jesse Quinlan from NASA Langley Research Center for his work titled Optimization of Advanced Hybrid Wing Body Concept using HCDstruct Version 2.0. He was presented a copy of the sixth edition of the AIAA Aerospace Design Engineers Guide.

This year’s competition is to design a tube- launch UAV. The UAV must fit inside the launch tube, which also acts as the UAV handling and storage container. The flyoff competition will take place April 20-23, 2017. The flyoff competition consists of three missions with varying quantities of regulation hockey puck payloads. The final scores are

DETC Calendar DETC Meeting (2) SciTech 2017 January 9-13, 2017 Design, Build, Fly Tucson, AZ April 20-23, 2017 DETC Meeting (1) Aviation 2017 June 5-9, 2017

Design Engineering Technical Committee Newsletter Page 3 DETC Calendar DETC Meeting (2) SciTech 2017 January 9-13, 2017 Design, Build, Fly Tucson, AZ April 20-23, 2017 DETC Meeting (1) Aviation 2017 June 5-9, 2017

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