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Society of Aerospace Engineers (SAE)
Society of Aerospace Engineers (SAE) is a community of students, Faculty and staff members of the Department of Aerospace Engineering IIT Kanpur. SAE primarily aims at increasing the level of interaction among the students and faculty members, through several events and programs like conducting the Departmental Freshers and Farewell ceremony and dinners, managing Aerospace Library, organizing industrial trips, movie sessions, lecture series, departmental magazines, summer camps etc.
Summer Workshop
Since last 2 years SAE has been organizing Summer Camp / Workshop for First Year Students to excite them towards all things related to Aerospace Engineering. This has been a great success with strong participation every year. In 2012 the following activities were arranged.
Coordinators: Tushar Sikroria and Ankur Chawla
Special Lecture and Workshop: Patent Information for Research and Entrepreneurship Speaker: Mr. Amit Shukla, Consultant, SIDBI-Innovation & Incubation Centre, IITK Date: June 1, 2012
Lectures by Faculty
- Dr. Abhijit Kushari: Propulsion (28 May )
- Dr. Sudhir Kamle: Structures (29 May)
- Dr. Abhishek: Helicopters (29 May)
- Dr. T K Sengupta: Aerodynamics (29 May)
- Dr. A K Ghosh: Flight Mechanics (31 May)
- Dr. Kamal Poddar: LabVIEW (4 June)
Lectures by Students
- Inertial Measurement Units (30 May)
- Sensors (31 May)
Projects Undertaken by Students
- Fixed Wing MAV Design
- Wing and Wing Box Structure
- Rocket Design
Design Competitions
SAE actively mentors and encourages participation of students in various national and international student competitions. In year 2011-2012, students participated in the following competitions:
- NASA Environmental Responsible Aviation Challenge
- AHS Student Design Competition 2012
- AIAA Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design
- AIAA Undergraduate Individual Aircraft Design
- AIAA Undergraduate Team Space Design
- AIAA Undergraduate Team Space Transportation Design
During 2012-2013:
- AHS Student Design Competition 2013
- AIAA Undergraduate Team Space Transportation Design
- MICAV 2013
- Airbus Fly Your Ideas Competition
Competitions Won by SAE members
Students from SAE IIT Kanpur have been winning several national and international cometitions in last few years, some of which are listed below:
- AHS Student Design Competition 2011: Best New Entry - Sriram Ganesan and Puneet Singh
- NASA Green Aviation Challenge 2011: 1st Prize International Entries - Mukul Atri and Sriram Ganesan
- Caltech Space Challenge: Winning Team of 16 international students - Sriram Ganesan
- XVII National Seminar on Aerospace Structures September 2011 : Best Student Poster - Sriram Ganesan and Mukul Atri
- 42nd All India Student Design Competition by NDRF, Institute of Engineers India: Gold Medal in Aerospace Engineering - Puneet Singh
Workshops
Following workshops were also organized
- Rocket Workshop
- Space Shuttle Workshop
Some pictures from the activity are included below.
Summer Workshop
Since last 2 years SAE has been organizing Summer Camp / Workshop for First Year Students to excite them towards all things related to Aerospace Engineering. This has been a great success with strong participation every year. In 2012 the following activities were arranged.
Coordinators: Tushar Sikroria and Ankur Chawla
Special Lecture and Workshop: Patent Information for Research and Entrepreneurship Speaker: Mr. Amit Shukla, Consultant, SIDBI-Innovation & Incubation Centre, IITK Date: June 1, 2012
Lectures by Faculty
- Dr. Abhijit Kushari: Propulsion (28 May )
- Dr. Sudhir Kamle: Structures (29 May)
- Dr. Abhishek: Helicopters (29 May)
- Dr. T K Sengupta: Aerodynamics (29 May)
- Dr. A K Ghosh: Flight Mechanics (31 May)
- Dr. Kamal Poddar: LabVIEW (4 June)
Lectures by Students
- Inertial Measurement Units (30 May)
- Sensors (31 May)
Projects Undertaken by Students
- Fixed Wing MAV Design
- Wing and Wing Box Structure
- Rocket Design
IIT Kanpur / TAMU Exchange Program
IIT Kanpur Aerospace Engineering students participate in an exchange program with students of Aerospace Engineering from the Texas A&M University Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur this summer. Four students from IIT Kanpur Aero studied at Texas A&M University in College Station, while the same number of students from A&M studied at IIT Kanpur in Summer of 2012.
Students were able to work on projects under the guidance of world-renowned aerospace engineering faculty at both institutions.
Projects worked on at IIT Kanpur included the areas of:
- Effect of Filler Volume Fraction on Fracture Behavior of Glass Particle Filled Epoxy Composites
- Aeroelastic modeling of blade trailing edge flaps
- Performance Analysis of Morphing Rotor Helicopters
Projects worked on at Texas A&M included the areas of:
- Open Loop Simulation of Control of Helicopter
- Uncertainty Propagation in Hypersonic Reentry Model
- Modeling of Piezoelectric Effects
- Modeling of Turbulence
- Feedback Motion Planning of UAVs
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Welcome Message
The Aerospace Engineering Department is more than 40 years old. Till 1991, it was known as Aeronautical Engineering Department. The name change was accompanied by addition of topics relating to spacecraft in the UG curriculum; some members of the faculty had been conducting research and guiding PG students in this area even before the formal alteration of the name in 1991. In matters of teaching, research & development, the department has always tried to strike a balance between hardware development and experiments on one hand...
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Prof. G. M. Kamath
Head, Department of Aerospace Engineering