PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT

To provide to schools of engineering and design the possibility of working in a real project for developing an UAS. Students, with their participation, will acquire the skills of workgroup capacities, working by objectives, last minute technology and knowledge on future markets among others. On the other hand, UAS industry companies will have a laboratory of ideas and an additional source of future market and product technicians.

OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

The project will consist on manufacturing a, fully functional UAS, following the AESA rules. In this primary edition, will be designed to undertake a representative humanitarian aid mission. The system will be required to operate automatically, performing a series of tasks such as area search, navigating waypoints, accurately dropping payloads and returning to base via a defined route. In future editions this target could be diferent. The phases during the project will include market analysis, definitions on product and its design, and, as a consequence of this, building a real prototype of an UAS. It will be mandatory, also, a business plan that explains how each team evaluates launching its UAS in terms of production, prices, dealers, markets...

PROJECT SCOPE

The scope of the project this primary year is limited to engineering degree universities as well as the participation of mixed teams with departments or design schools or technicals universities from around the world. The final projects will be presented for verification in a workshop (3 days) at the BARCELONA racetrack

REGULATION 2017

Here you have the regulation of this new challenge. To have the latest version you have to your right of the window a button with the name "Click Me". Any questions you have about the rules of the challenge have a form at the end of the contact web.

Give students real-world engineering experience before leaving university

Throughout the competition, students will get to demonstrate their technical, engineering design and manufacturing skills, learn key team-working, time management, project management, budgeting and presentation skills – and become better equipped for a long-lasting career in engineering. Aspects of the design can constitute their final year project.

Benefits for participants:

Opportunity to promote benefits / fill the void
Inspire young people to pursue career in aerospace
Obtain practical aerospace engineering skills for industry
Win backing from potential employers that they would like to work for Develop connections with other like-minded students from other universities and network
Learn more about the next generation of aircraft
Gain accolades for achievements

The UAS Challenge has been established to:

Encourage and promote UAS research within academia
Promote inter-university collaboration to encourage fundamental and interdisciplinary UAS research
Encourage integration of enabling technologies in curriculum
Create a hub to foster closer academia / industry links
Enhance employment opportunities in the sector
Stimulate interest in sector and set challenges or aspiring engineers
Promote aerospace as a career for engineers
Develop team building skills of participants
Promote the public and professional perception of the Institution in aerospace
Promote awareness by both the educational establishment and the public of the role of the Institution in the aerospace technology field
Provide an opportunity for students to develop and demonstrate team working, leadership and commercial skills as well as technical competence