A 16-member undergraduate student team from the University
of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science has won an
international design competition.
The team’s design, “The Sustinere: A Turboelectric
Distributed Propulsion Regional Jet for 2025,” took first place in the Federal
Aviation Administration's Electric/Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Technology
Challenge, tying with a team of graduate students from the Georgia Institute of
Technology.
The U.Va. team members included Matthew Abelmann, Sohail
Ahmad, Thomas Arnot, Clifton Bumgardner, Brian Connolly, Daniel Flowers, Stefan
Ha, Jane Hawkins, Aaron Lam, Frederick Lothers, Stephen Moore, Chris Reuter, T.
Brandon Smith, Sean Thompson, Kha Tran and Jodi Yim.