UConn AIAA

03/22/2021

Hi Everyone! Thank you so much to everyone that has donated to our organization so far! We greatly appreciate it and your support will go a long way for our members.
Today marks the start of Week 5 of the 2021 Ignite Fundraiser starts today (competition: the highest # of parent donors (parents of current undergraduates))! All donations go directly to funding design projects and events where our members can explore their interests in aerospace.
Show your support for UConn's AIAA student branch!
Link to our Ignite Fundraising Page:
https://s.uconn.edu/uconnaiaaignite2021
Help fuel our organization's mission to enable our members to follow and explore their passions within the aerospace field. It means so much to us!
UConn Ignite - HuskyDrive
UConn
UConn School of Engineering
AIAA - The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

03/15/2021

Hi Everyone! Thank you so much to everyone that has donated to our organization so far! We greatly appreciate it and your support will go a long way for our members.

Today marks the start of Week 4 of the 2021 Ignite Fundraiser starts today (competition: the highest # of UConn GOLD Alumni Donors (graduating classes from 2010 to 2020))! All donations go directly to funding design projects where our members can explore their interests in aerospace.
Show your support for UConn's AIAA student branch!
Link to our Ignite Fundraising Page:
https://s.uconn.edu/uconnaiaaignite2021

Are you interested in learning more about RDEs (Rotating Detonation Engines)??? Last semester our student branch held a virtual presentation by Dr. Craig Nordeen discussing the history/ evolution, the theory of, and his own work on advancing this type of unsteady engine. RDEs are a form of pressure gain combustion, where detonations propagate continuously around an annular chamber. Rather than operating on the constant-pressure heat addition of the Brayton cycle, rotating detonation engines have the potential to have a much higher efficiency than the current, conventional gas turbine engines (up to ~15%!) by the detonative combustion greatly increasing the pressure in a constant-volume heat addition.
If you want to learn more, check out the recorded presentation on our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3igO7zcd5U&t=2s

Help fuel our organization's mission to enable our members to follow and explore their passions within the aerospace field. It means so much to us!

UConn Ignite - HuskyDrive
UConn
UConn School of Engineering
AIAA - The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

03/08/2021

Hi Everyone! Thank you so much to everyone that has donated to our organization so far! We greatly appreciate it and your support will go a long way for our members.

Below (previous post) is a video of a static fire of the student researched and developed (SRAD) Alumaflame solid rocket motor conducted by the Rocketry Team in UConn's AIAA student branch. This is an important milestone each year by the Rocketry Team to validate their solid rocket motor, which is a step closer towards constructing a sounding rocket to carry a scientific payload to 30,000 ft for the Spaceport America Cup competition. This motor propels the 12’4” rocket carrying a scientific payload at supersonic speeds up to Mach 1.5! WOW, check out the video below!

Today marks the start of Week 3 of the 2021 Ignite Fundraiser starts today! The competition for Weeks 3 and 4 is for the highest # of UConn GOLD Alumni Donors (graduating classes from 2010 to 2020), so we would love support if you fall into this category! However, if you don’t fall into that category and still want to donate, that’s great, too! All donations go directly to funding design projects where our members can explore their interests in aerospace.

Show your support for UConn's AIAA student branch!

Link to our Ignite Fundraising Page:
https://s.uconn.edu/uconnaiaaignite2021

Help fuel our organization's mission to enable our members to follow and explore their passions within the aerospace field. It means so much to us!

UConn Ignite - HuskyDrive
UConn
UConn School of Engineering
AIAA - The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

03/08/2021

This is a video of a static fire of the student researched and developed (SRAD) Alumaflame solid rocket motor conducted by the Rocketry Team in UConn's AIAA student branch. This is an important milestone each year by the Rocketry Team to validate their solid rocket motor, which is a step closer towards constructing a sounding rocket to carry a scientific payload to 30,000 ft for the Spaceport America Cup competition.

03/02/2021

Hey Everyone! Week 2 of the 2021 Ignite Fundraiser starts today! Thank you so much to the donors that have already donated and shown their support! All donations go directly to funding design projects where our members can explore their interests in aerospace.
Show your support for UConn's AIAA student branch!
Link to our Ignite Fundraising Page:
https://s.uconn.edu/uconnaiaaignite2021

Below is a photo from early 2020 when our Rocketry Team, which competes in the Spaceport America Cup in New Mexico, tested their Student Researched and Design (SRAD) solid rocket motor with a static fire! Stay tuned next week for a video of the static fire 👀👀👀

Help fuel our organization's mission to enable our members to follow and explore their passions within the aerospace field. It means so much to us!
UConn Ignite - HuskyDrive
UConn
AIAA - The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

02/22/2021

Hey Everyone! The 2021 Ignite Fundraiser kicks off today! Show your support for UConn's AIAA student branch!
Link to our Ignite Fundraising Page:
https://s.uconn.edu/uconnaiaaignite2021
Help fuel our organization's mission to enable our members to follow and explore their passions within the aerospace field. It means so much to us!
UConn Ignite - HuskyDrive
UConn
UConn School of Engineering
AIAA - The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

03/03/2020

With almost $600 donated to UConn AIAA, the community map keeps growing with donors from all over the Northeast and Europe. Let's keep adding to the map!

02/25/2020

With over $500 donated thus far, we are flying high!
Donate now: https://raise.uconn.edu/?cfpage=project&project_id=34109

Develop students in the various principles of Aerospace Engineering

02/18/2020

The fire has begun, the 2020 Ignite Raise Uconn season has started! Please donate now!




https://raise.uconn.edu/?cfpage=project&project_id=34109&t=1582000985

03/15/2019

Hi everyone, we would just like to direct your attention to our new club website! The rocketry team will be using it to post periodic updates on their progress for IREC, and in the future it will be used to post our club events. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Contact us at: [email protected]

02/26/2019

UConn AIAA is participating in the Ignite fundraising campaign to raise money for our organization. Please consider donating from the following link. The money we raise will go towards club operations in addition to our rocketry team. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about what we do please reach out! Thank you!

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - University of Connecticut Branch