School of Mines Takes First Place in Aero Design -- Released June 7, 2006 - men's italian leather shoes - Top

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In just its sixth year of competition, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology captured first place in the Regular Class Division at the Aero Design West remote-controlled airplane competition in Encino, Calif. This the second consecutive year the School of Mines has taken first place at the international competition.

The School of Mines team spent months designing, building and testing the fixed-wing monoplane, which has a 94.5 inch wingspan. At the competition, the plane carried 24.08 pounds of added weight, the most of any of the nearly 40 teams.

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 world. For this accomplishment, the School of Mines team was awarded the Elliott & Dorothy Green Award of Excellence. The team also brought home the traveling trophy that will remain on campus for the next year.

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. They build on the core values of trust, respect, friendship, integrity and commitment to excellence. Every student had chosen tasks and every student fulfilled those tasks flawlessly. Every student felt like he or she 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/

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