Welcome to the AIAA Student Chapter at UC Irvine

Mission:

The mission of the AIAA Student Chapter at UC Irvine is to promote activities and participation in aeronautics and astronautics amongst undergraduate engineering students, and to help the students pursue opportunities for successful careers with leadership positions in aerospace engineering in academia, industry, or government.

AIAA:

The AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics), and its predecessors, has been the principal society of the aerospace engineer and scientist for more than 70 years. The AIAA home web site is at http://www.aiaa.org and the AIAA Orange County Section web site is at http://www.aiaa.org/sections/or 

New Student Officers (2008-09):

Chair: Chad Maynard  

Vice Chair: Calvin Nguyen  

Secretary: Howard Ngo  

Treasurer: Dennis Tam  

DBF Manager: Calvin Nguyen

Faculty:

DBF Advisor: Prof. Robert H. Liebeck

AIAA Advisor: Prof. Haris J. Catrakis

Design, Build, & Fly Competition Results for 2006:

The UCI AIAA Design, Build, & Fly (DBF) team mentored by Prof. Liebeck has placed 7th out of 49 entries in the competition held in Wichita, KA, on April 21-23, 2006.  Pictures of the UCI aircraft at the DBF competition are available here: http://mae.eng.uci.edu/aiaa/DBF2006/pictures.html  

Additional information on the DBF competition results is available here: http://mae.eng.uci.edu/aiaa/DBF2006.pdf 

Activities, Related Events, and Schedules: