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Undergraduate Students Design and Build Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, continued

"I don't know of any other student project that has gone out and found this kind of support," says Charbel Farhat, chair of the AES department.

Other students working on the project include Michael Bertman, Matthew Bean, Lynn Berry, Eric Cain, Mark Donohue, Mark Middleton, Eric Pahl, Jarvis Songer and Greg Stack. The students held regular meetings with General Dynamics engineers throughout the last academic year to keep them updated and get feedback on the project.

"Ultimately, I would like to see the vehicle fly with little or no interaction with ground controllers, but for now, the team is focused on getting the aircraft flying safely," says Purvis.

While Purvis will graduate in May, some of the other group members who are juniors plan to do a follow-on project next year.

Aerospace Engineering Advisory Board
Chair: James McAnally, Lockheed Martin Astronautics (Retired)	B. Clovis Landry, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Susan K. Avery, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)	John H. McMasters, The Boeing Company—Ed Wells Initiative
Daniel N. Baker, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)	R. C. Mercure, CDM Optics, Inc.
Vance Brand, Dryden Flight Research Center (former astronaut)	Lanny Pinchuk, College of Engineering, CU-Boulder (Retired)
Richard A. Cook, Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Eli Reshotko, Case Western Reserve University
Michael S. Francis, Lockheed Martin Corporation (Col., Retired)	H. Joe Smead, Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics (Retired)
George J. Gleghorn, TRW Space and Technology Group (Retired)	Peter B. Teets, Lockheed Martin Corporation (Retired)
Richard Herring, Spectral Solutions, Inc.	Don Vanlandingham, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Noel W. Hinners, Lockheed Martin Space Systems	Bill Weston, The Boeing Company
Craig E. Johnston, Lockheed Martin SkunkWorks	David Wheaton, Lockheed Martin Corporation (Retired)

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