{"id":187,"date":"2015-02-20T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/?p=187"},"modified":"2023-02-20T20:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T20:27:30","slug":"cecs-team-makes-the-grade-at-sme-aerodef-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/2015\/02\/20\/cecs-team-makes-the-grade-at-sme-aerodef-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"CECS team makes the grade at SME AeroDef Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Toucan-Sam-SDPS-2014-264.jpg\"<\/a>CSUN has a proud history of success at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers\u2019 AeroDef Manufacturing Challenge, and the 2014 competition in February was no exception. The team responsible for \u201cToucan Sam,\u201d a prototype of a plane capable of vertical takeoff and landing, took third place in the university category at the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team did a phenomenal job, from CAD design to product fabrication, electronic control and flight testing,\u201d says Youping Gao, the adjunct faculty member who advised the team. \u201cThey wanted to create an aircraft that could take off and land like a helicopter but fly like an airplane. From project selection to finalizing everything, they had only three months. It was a very short time to create, design, produce and fly the aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gao was especially impressed with their ability to deploy a wide spectrum of manufacturing processes\u2014complicated CNC machining, laser cutting, additive manufacturing, composite fabrication and assembly\u2014all while utilizing advanced materials such as high-strength aluminum, titanium, nickel-based alloys and carbon fiber composites.<\/p>\n

The five-member team based their aircraft on a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, and their aim was to convert it from a limited-function helicopter with a strict flying pattern into a viable multirole aircraft capable of flying both as airplane and as helicopter without sacrificing the performance in either role. They used 3D printing of metals in order to be able to produce parts quickly and worked with the CSUN photography department to document the project\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n

In garnering third prize, the plane, which was the senior design project for the five-member team, was judged on its manufacturability.<\/p>\n

Team members included Andrew Freesh, who served as team leader; Jacob Smyles, Maxwell Tubbs, Narek Ohanyan and Pegah Fakhar.<\/p>\n

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CSUN has a proud history of success at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers\u2019 AeroDef Manufacturing Challenge, and the 2014 competition in February was no exception. The team responsible for \u201cToucan Sam,\u201d a prototype of a plane capable of vertical takeoff and landing, took third place in the university category at the event. \u201cThe team did a phenomenal job, from CAD design to product fabrication, electronic control and flight testing,\u201d says Youping Gao, the adjunct faculty member who advised the team. \u201cThey wanted to create an aircraft that could take off and land like a helicopter but fly like an airplane. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2014-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}