THE TEAM

Current Team

The team currently has 40 members - not including those on year-long industrial placements. The team consists mostly of Mechanical Engineering students, but also includes students from Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Structural Engineering and General Engineering.

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Management Team

Will Bainbridge (Team Principal)
Leo Carrington-Crook (Technical Compliance Coordinator)
Samuel Deacon (Design and Manufacturing Coordinator)

PhD Supervisors

Charlotte Currie
James Heginbottom
Niamh O'Connell
Max Deil

Academic Supervisor

Prof. Roger Lewis

Innovation

Adam Fuery
Ethan Jack

Structures & Dynamics Team

Liam Mack (Team Leader)
Oliver Loader
Ellis Lowthorpe
Ashnah Judith Bufion
Cerys Sago (Socials Coordinator)
James Dixon (Workshop Lead)
Elin Evans

Electronics & Control Systems Team

Jason Kambites (Team Leader)
Anton Hulka
Georgia Betts
Hannah Senior (Welfare and Inclusions Officer)
Gabriel Szatan
Dylan Clarke (Recruitment Coordinator)

Mechanical Systems Team

Todd Levy (Team Leader)
Archie Stone
Justin Griffiths (R&D Coordinator)
Daniel Edge (Socials Coordinator)
Erin Mcgivern
Max Chisholm (Workshop Lead)
Oliver Kingman
Zach Pritchard

Year in Industry / Abroad

Alan Zajac
Oscar Bennet
Natalie Proctor
Oliver Blanche
Felix Geupel
Thesiya Parathan

Team structure

The team is broken down broadly into the structure shown below. There are sometimes additional positions relating to specific tasks (e.g. recruitment or competition organisation), if there are team members who wish to take on these responsibilities. If not, they are shared amongst the management team.

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