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Student engineers from ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering received the top proposal score out of 141 institutions worldwide in the (AIAA) Design-Build-Fly 2020 competition.

The #1 ranking was based on a proposal submitted by the City College AIAA student branch. It included the team management, conceptual design, and manufacturing and testing plans for the ����Ӱҵ aircraft, “Brolic Beaver.”

Participants in this first round came from across both the United States and the world. Institutions bested by ����Ӱҵ include American schools: , , and the . From overseas, (Australia), (United Arab Emirates), the , and the were among the vanquished teams.

����Ӱҵ now advances to the as a favorite.

According to Mazen Alhirsh, a mechanical engineering major and ����Ӱҵ’s chief engineer and team leader, the objective of this year’s competition is to design a banner-towing bush plane that can conduct charter flights.

“The plane needs to complete four missions including a ground mission, a test flight mission, a passenger mission, and a banner mission,” said Alhirsh. “For the banner mission, the plane will have to deploy and release a banner with ����Ӱҵ written on it. The banner mission inspired our team name, ‘The Towing Company.’”

The ����Ӱҵ team is currently working on developing its first prototype of the “Brolic Beaver” that it hopes to test fly before the winter holidays.  

Other members of the team (all mechanical engineering majors) included:

•    Samantha Arato;
•    Muhammad Attiyab;
•    Hemwatie Persaud;
•     Erick Robles; and
•    Brenda Valbuena.

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