Aero Uottawa

Introducing in March 2017, Aerospace Club uOttawa is the first Aerospace SAE team at the University of Ottawa. With an established production team for the first time in 2017/2018, the team is looking forward to building its first plane and compete in the SAE Aero Design competition East. Following months of consistent growth, the 2017/2018 team is currently comprised of 30 University of Ottawa engineering, business, human kinetics students. SAE Aero Design competition has three categories as follows; Regular class, Advanced class, and Micro class. The SAE Aero Design competition is intended to provide undergraduate and graduate engineering students with a real-life engineering challenges. Namely, being in a design competition, students will find themselves performing trade studies and making compromises to arrive at an effective solution that will optimally meet the mission requirements while still conforming to the configuration limitations. The importance of interpersonal communication skills is sometimes overlooked, yet both written and oral communication skills are vital in the engineering workplace. To help teams develop these skills, a high percentage of a team's score is devoted to the design report and the oral presentation required in the competition. Regular Class: requires teams to construct a plane within specified parameters annually updated on the SAE Aero Design website. Each team is judged on three categories: Oral presentation, written report, and flight. The objective of the regular class is to design and construct a radio-controlled model aircraft that will lift the largest payload while still maintaining structural integrity.