Rockets
Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition - IREC Student Research and Design 30,000 Ft
ARGONIA CUP
Certification Rocket Flights
Drones
Midwest Robotic Design Competition, MRDC
Design, Build, Fly
Cessna/Raytheon
Overall
Solidworks Workshops and Challenges
XLR5 Workshops
Programming Workshops
Information Sessions about Project Knowledge
Student Research and Design Opportunities
We are UIC's only aerospace club. We beat gravity on a daily basis.
There are three teams within our club: Rockets, Drones, and DBF (planes)
Rocketry
We build rockets fully from scratch. Our main competitions right now is Argonia, where we play golf at 8k feet, and IREC where we build every components on the rocket ourselves and launch up to 30k ft in New Mexico.
Our members have the opportunity to get certified in high power rocketry, most orgs don't offer certifications but we do.
Drones
We design customized drones which are then printed at the Maker Space using the school's 3D printers available for students. Our main competition is the Midwest Robotics Design Competition which is located at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. There we compete with several different universities to see who can design the best robot or drone to complete several different tasks assigned by the competition judges.
Design, Build, Fly
We are given a task from the competition leaders at the beginning of the year, then we design, build, and fly that plane against people all around the world! Our tasks have ranging from crop dusting to speed to passenger planes, we do it all. We utilize programs like XLR5 and Solidworks, while using the school facilities like the Makerspace and machine shop.
Organization Progress (2020-2021)
For this year the Argonia Cup Team achieved:
Production of a Technical Rocket Submission which provided the following:
6in Diameter Frame
8000ft Apogee
SABOT Drone Deployment Method
Drone Based Golf-Apparatus
Dual Deployment
Production of a Secondary Rocket Submission which provided the following:
3in Diameter Frame
8000ft Apogee
Nosecose Based Golf-Apparatus
Dual Deployment
For this year the IREC Team Achieved:
Manufacturing of 6in Motor Tube which includes the following:
Motor Tube
Bulkhead
Nozzle Case
Nozzle
Completed Design of Staging Coupler
Completed Design of 6in Fin Can
Began Research and Development of Hydro-Static Test Stand
Began Research and Development of Static Fire Test Stand
Development of CubeSat Format (1CU or 2CU) Payload which includes the following:
2CU CubeSat Housing
2CU CubeSat Shelving System
1CU CubeSat Subject - Solar Panel Experiment
Argonia Cup 2021 Album
IREC 2021 Album
For this year the Cesna/Ratheon Team Achieved:
Researched and Designed Fuselage Geometry
Researched and Designed Airfoil Geometry using XLR5 results to obtain proper lift and performance of craft.
Designed Bay Door Electronic Configuration alongside Propulsion Electronics as to perform in the three categories of the competition.
For this year the MRDC Team was short handed, but the design for a Dodeca Hexa-Styled Drone was modified from a previous submission.
For this year the High Powered Rocketry Certifications succeed with a handful of successful Level 1 completions in the Fall of 2020. These certifications still continue into the end of May where another round of Certifiers will either, go back for their Level 2 Flights, or try to get their Certifications as new members for the Spring of 2021.
4 Level 1 Certifications
1 Level 2 Certification
This year was very hard on the Organization in terms of work capabilities, communication and recruitment. But even with the COVID Barrier the organization did its best to adapt properly and try new things:
The Organization changed modes of communication from Slack to Discord for ease of use.
The Organization took the new members of the organization and held workshops to build up their personal skills. Solidworks, Ansys, XLR5, and Open Rocket Workshops were amongst those personal skills.
The Organization was able to retain an off campus presence by moving our organizations gear to the proper team leads and continuing production.
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