AHS Annual Student Design Competition - Univ. of Maryland entries

 

        Every year since 1984, a student helicopter design competition has been co-sponsored by the American Helicopter Society, International, and the rotorcraft industry. Students from the University of Maryland first took part in 1988, placing third, but then remained absent from the competition for 10 years, until 1998, when Andy Bernhard and a group of other graduate students of the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center revived interest in it.   Since then, Maryland teams have participated every year, winning first place eight times in a row, over universities such as the Georgia Institute of Technology, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and the U.S Air Force Institute of Technology.   The students develop the design during the course of a one-semester class in Helicopter Design (ENAE 634) offered by the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the Spring of each year.   The class is co-taught by Professor Inderjit Chopra, Senior Research Scientist Vengalattore Nagaraj, and Visiting Professor Marat Tishchenko [PDF link].

 
Year Placed The Design Team Members Summary RFP Report (pdf)
1988 3rd N/A N/A N/A Heavy-lift helicopter N/A N/A
1998 1st Chesapeake
  • Andreas Bernhard (*)
  • Jason Kiddy
  • R. Clifton Moody
  • Jinwei Shen
  • Jayant Sirohi
  • Mao Yang
  • Hyeonsoo Yeo
To develop a modern 12-seat civil VTOL transport rotorcraft with the capability to grow to 19 seats with minimum changes. N/A (25 MB)

(ps, 7 MB)
1999 1st CalVert
  • Nikhil Koratkar (*)
  • Nicolas Costes
  • William Horn
  • Vijay Madhavan
  • Hun Park
  • Harsha Prahlad
  • Paul Samuel
  • Mark Shaner
To develop a high-speed (180-kt cruise), VTOL, 4-6 place, personal transport aircraft, minimizing the the number of man hours required to fabricate the components. (pdf, 1.9 MB) (3 MB)
2000 1st MARV
  • Anubhav Datta (*)
  • Jinsong Bao
  • Dan Griffiths
  • Oivier Gamard
  • Lin Liu
  • Greg Pugliese
  • Beatrice Roget
  • Jayanarayanan Sitaraman
To develop an autonomous rotorcraft for exploration of Mars. The mission was to be a proof-of-concept demonstration for rotary wing flight in the Martian atmosphere. (html)

(doc, 32 KB)

(pdf, 110 KB) 		(8 MB)
2001 1st Raven
  • Matthew Tarascio (*)
  • Marc Gervais
  • Gaurav Gopalan
  • Tim Gowen
  • Kristi Kleinhesselink
  • Jun Ma
  • Kiran Singh
  • Yong-sheng Zhao
To develop a VTOL platform with an innovative method of controlling the cyclic pitch of the rotor blades. Methods that do not depend upon the use of traditional swashplate mechanisms were sought. (html)

(doc, 82 KB)

(pdf, 172 KB) 		(7 MB)
2002 1st TerpRanger
  • Jason Pereira (*)
  • Felipe Bohorquez
  • Mustapha Chehab
  • Ronald Couch
  • Tracy DuVall
  • Jacob Park
  • Beerinder Singh
To upgrade and remanufacture a 4-6 place turbine helicopter for commercial applications, that can operate at 140 Kt cruise speed and have a range of 400nm. (html)

(doc, 128 KB)

(pdf, 199 KB) 		(4 MB)
2003 1st Aeneas
  • Shreyas Ananthan (*)
  • Jayasimha Atulasimha
  • Aubrey Goodman
  • Vinit Gupta
  • Wei Hu
  • Sudarshana Koushik
  • Anand Radhakrishnan
  • Maria Ribera
  • Celestine Wakha
  • Joseph Whitt
To design a VTOL urban disaster response vehicle for high rise firefighter deployment, rooftop occupant extraction, disaster command and control and other emergency response missions. (html)

(doc, 693 KB)

(pdf, 280 KB) 		(13 MB)
2004 1st Condor
  • Joshua Ellison (*)
  • Abhishek Abhishek
  • Joseph Conroy
  • Jaye Falls
  • Shaju John
  • Robin Preator
To develop a helicopter specifically designed for high altitude rescue operations. The aircraft had to be certified for single pilot, day/night operations with cruise speeds of at least 145 knots. (pdf, 127 KB) (3.5 MB)

(With bookmarks, 21 MB)
2005 1st Atlas
  • Benjamin Hein (*)
  • Tim Beasman
  • Anne Brindejonc
  • Anirban Chaudhuri
  • Eric Parsons
  • Nicolas Rosenfeld
  • Eric Schroeder
  • Eric Silberg
To design a military Heavy Lift VTOL aircraft that can operate from existing naval ships and transport a 20-ton FCS combat-ready vehicle. (pdf, 493 KB) (6.5 MB)

(Exec. summary, ppt, 7 MB)
2006 2nd Penguin / Pyros
  • Peter Copp (*)
  • Moble Benedict
  • Bryant Craig
  • Brandon Fitchett
  • Nitin Gupta
  • Arun Jose
  • Jishnu Keshavan
  • Shyam Menon
To design a two-seat, single-engine turbine training helicopter with operating characteristics representative of the [world's] turbine [helicopter] fleet, while being cost-competitive with current [piston-engined] training helicopters, along with the conceptual design of a low-cost turbine engine. (pdf, 141 KB) (12 MB)

(Exec. summary, ppt, 13.5 MB)
2007 2nd Triton
  • Benjamin Silbaugh (*)
  • Smita Bhadra
  • Joseph Coker
  • Vikram Hrishikeshavan
  • Asitav Mishra
  • Christopher Medic
To design an advanced manned VTOL Approach and Recovery Vehicle (ARV) that is capable of operating from a submersible vehicle in support of Special Operations Forces, and an advanced Unmanned Escort Vehicle (UEV) that is capable of supporting the operations of the ARV. (pdf, 216 KB) (18 MB)

(Exec. summary, ppt, 13 MB)
2008 -- -- -- -- To design an advanced, short-range, medium-speed, transport VTOL concept, capable of operating from an uprepared area, and which minimizes energy consumption and the complete pollution chain throughout the entire life cycle of the aircraft (manufacturing, operation, maintenance and end-of-life recycling), with initial operational capability (IOC) in 2020. (pdf, 97 KB) --
* Team Leader

 

 

 

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