Design Day 2024

Project Description
In this project, our team designed a Close Air Support (CAS) aircraft that must be able to complete two different combat missions. The aircraft must also comply with various constraints listed on the SRD sheet. In addition, multiple graphs and tables will be provided to support the claim on how the aircraft is safe and feasible. This means that the aircraft is stable, and it is capable of accomplishing the desired tasks in a favorable manner.

• Team Members: Mustafa Bahlool, Luke Brown, Ivan Jimenez, Kavan Morris, Connor Quinn, Patrick Zalameda
• Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey Butler; San Diego State University

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Project Description
SHRIMP 1 is a conceptual design of a supersonic business jet. It is designed to accommodate up to 15 passengers and accomplish two primary flight missions. The first is to achieve a minimum range of 4000 nmi at optimum conditions. The second is to be able to accelerate to, and maintain, a maximum velocity greater than Mach 2.

• Team Members: Stephanye Garcia, Gabriela Gonzalez Ayala, Shawn Hogh, Jeremy Johnson, Jason Klemens,
  Austin MacGowan, Carlos Ortega
• Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey Butler; San Diego State University

Project Description
C-X Leviathan is a heavy lift transportation aircraft design for AE-460 Aerospace Engineering Applications class as well as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Heavy Lift Aircraft Design Competition.

• Team Members: Carlos Gonzalez, Therese Dela Rosa, Justin Kuehn, Daniela Ramirez, Natalie Thiel, Brendan Uribe
• Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey Butler; San Diego State University

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Project Description
The LATV (Lunar Agriculture Test Vehicle) is a proof-of-concept mission to research food crop cultivation in a lunar environment. Using a lunar regolith gathering and preparation process, food crops of various species will be planted and monitored to gain knowledge into sustaining human life in an extraplanetary environment.

• Team Members: Brandon Barr, Daniel Black, Jack Caron, Nicholas Fischetti, Antonio Garcia, Donte King, Kyle Kline, Shotaro Kusunoki, Ted Saenger, James Schultz, Trevor Taylor
• Advisor: Prof. Pablo Machuca; San Diego State University

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Project Description
With NASA’s Artemis Program scheduled to re-establish a human presence on the Moon for scientific and exploratory purposes, the need for infrastructure to support these efforts has become apparent. We intend to provide a reliable means of lunar navigation and communication through the use of satellites in orbit around the Moon that can be used by humans, rovers, and robots as they traverse the lunar surface.

• Team Members: Sandra Alwakeel, John Egan, Rowdy Houser, Blake Lipofsky, Christian Miller, Jose Molina,
  Steven Nikolov, Gunner Oakley, Brian Spinelli
• Advisor: Prof. Pablo Machuca; San Diego State University

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Project Description
Our Mission aims to deliver a rover to the surface of the Moon that is capable of measuring environmental values that could have an effect on long term structures or human deployment. We aim to take simultaneous measurements of the conditions on the lunar surface and subterranean to make informative comparisons.

• Team Members: Daniel Alfaro, Leobardo Almodovar, Jerrin Concepcion, Walker Garcia, Stephen Heron,
  Thomas Hubbard, Jose Justimbaste, Fernando Pluma, DeVonta Stewart, Tommy Tran, Roberto Yano
• Advisor: Prof. Pablo Machuca; San Diego State University

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Project Description
This project is the conceptual design of a close air support aircraft and encompasses all aspects of aerospace previously taught such as aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, and stability and control. For the presentation, various views of the design will be pictured as well as highlighting key features.

• Team Members: Matthew Diaz, Alejandro Vaquera Nava, Nick Orcino, Christopher Phillips, Marvin Reyes,
  David Rodriguez, Khang Tu
• Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey Butler; San Diego State University

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Project Description
The VTOL Delivery drone project seeks to design and build a small unmanned aircraft capable of carrying a 6” x 8” x 10” 5-pound delivery package, demonstrate VTOL and hover capability, and be able to seamlessly transition from hover mode to a traditional horizontal mode mid-flight.

• Team Members: Daniel Black, Lillian Locken, Thomas Hubbard, Jeremy Johnson, Skylar Kinney
• Advisor: Prof. Joseph Katz; San Diego State University

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Project Description
Our team here at Project Lavahound has designed a next generation close air support aircraft capable of not only meeting, but exceeding a difficult set of project standards. Some of these requirements include: having a range of 3,000 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.85, a payload of over 11,000 pounds, aerial refueling capabilities, maintaining structural integrity across an operating range of -3.0 to 7.5g, neither the takeoff or landing can exceed 2,500 feet, a full life cycle cost analysis, and
many others.

• Team Members: Cloud Cheung, Gabriel Cruz, Kenneth De Francia, John Hays, Seth Lundin, Derrick Martin,
  Alexander Melton
• Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey Butler; San Diego State University

Project Description
Design and Development of the Next Generation of Aircraft Pilot Trainer Jets. We designed and created a pilot trainer aircraft for the US Air Force based on requirements of design. This is a next generation aircraft capable of training pilots for real world missions with redundancies put in place for pilot safety. This aircraft was designed from the ground up based off other aircraft either previously or currently in existence.

• Team Members: Bader Jackson, Mikkelson Joseph, Prado Joshua, Tenner Aaron
• Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey Butler; San Diego State University

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Project Description
With the ever-increasing amount of space debris in Earth’s lowest orbit the demand for an efficient system to eliminate space debris has never been higher. The Space Debris Clean-Up team is happy to announce operation Opochtli (Orbital Pollutant Oriented Clean-Up Help through Laser Impulse). Taking inspiration from the Aztec God Opochtli (God of Hunting), the Space Debris Clean-Up team aims to hunt down space debris in LEO to help ensure success in future space missions.

• Team Members: Skylar Kinney, Emilio Camarillo, Evan Chase, Juan Cruz, Nathalia Del Callejo, Rylie Hong,
  Lillian Locken, Rashad Mann, Nicholas Richards, Alejandro Rivera, Justin Santos
• Advisor: Prof. Pablo Machuca; San Diego State University

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Project Description
Asteroids have the potential to contain valuable resources. The TARS mission is a low-cost satellite whose purpose is to determine an asteroid’s composition and assess its utility for future missions.

• Team Members: Marc Aeschelmann, Brock Bowers, Zachary Brown, Alonzo Covarrubias, Venia Ghazarian,
  Nicholas Hammond, Ryan Harrison, Kevin Lopez Gonzalez, Johnny McDonagh, Tyler Tiengard, Ricky Tran
• Advisor: Prof. Pablo Machuca; San Diego State University

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Project Description
We would like to present what we are working on in our AE 460 Senior Design Class. We are looking into ways to advance a Close Air Support Aircraft.

• Team Members: Aislinn Arias, Jaden Karger, Michael Kidane, James Lam, Jalen White, Cameron Whitfield
• Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey Butler; San Diego State University