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Additionally, the team worked briskly to accelerate their schedule early in the year, flying their first prototype just nine weeks after the requirements were released in September. “My team put in about 9,000 hours of work,” Ayd said. Another big point of pride for the Daytona Beach team is that more than 50% of its members currently have a full-time job, internship or research opportunity, said Ayd, who was hired in May 2022 by The Boeing Company as an aerodynamic test engineer in St. Louis, Missouri. “We’re really proud of that,” Ayd said. “It affirms that what we are doing in this club is developing skills that are critical to working in the industry.”
The Prescott team, with its top-10 finish, also set new standards for gaining the hands-on experience so vital in today’s job market. “The experience the students gain from being involved in this club is invaluable: report writing, presentations, teamwork, communication, project management, hands-on engineering and a lot of applied technical engineering work,” said Dr. Johann Dorfling, assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering and the Prescott team’s faculty advisor. “Employers really value this type of experience.”
Controller Board A compact integrated circuit designed to govern a specific operation in an embedded system, a typical microcontroller includes a processor, memory and input/output (I/O) peripherals on a single chip.
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