RV College team for Design-Build-Fly contest in US

Project Vyoma, the team from RV College of Engineering, specialising in designing and flying unmanned flying objects (UAVs) will be one of the two Indian colleges participating in the ‘2015 AIAA Foundation Design-Build-Fly’ competition to be held at Arizona in the US this month.

This is the first time the college will be participating in the competition. An eleven-member team comprising students from first to fourth year and from all the engineering branches will be flying to the US for the competition.Project Vyoma was started in 2007 by seven students and the first UAV designed by the team competed at the SAE Aero Design 2008. Subsequently, the team has participated in the SAE 2009, 2011 and 2012, 2013 and 2014 with better designed UAVs each year. In 2013, the team won the NASA Systems Engineering Award for its design.