Pictured left to right: Ana Almeida, Dillon Petty, and Nicole Zimmerli.
Congratulations to Nicole Zimmerli, Dillon Petty, and Ana Almeida, mechanical engineering students and team members of the Akronauts Rocket Design Team, for recently receiving third place at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) regional student conference.
Their presentation featured their latest paper centered around the “Design of a GRCop-42 Regeneratively Cooled Thrust Chamber Assembly and Feed System” (A.K.A. a regeneratively cooled rocket engine!).
The team competed against students from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and Wisconsin and there were over 30 papers submitted to the conference, 11 of which were in their competition category.
UA's students are at the forefront of collegiate rocket design and one of the few design teams in the country working with a regeneratively cooled rocket engine, which is completely student-designed. In addition, UA is the only university in Ohio that has tested a liquid engine thus far.
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Media contact: Cristine Boyd, 330-972-6476 or cboyd@uakron.edu.