Project 1
The S.C.A.R. 1; 10,000 ft low altitude rocket
Overview
This project will be an intensive design process for students. The students will be designing the structure, the motor, and the propellant and buying most of the avionics. The structure is to be made from carbon fiber sections that will be coupled together so that assembly of the internal component will be made easy and if there are any issues, sections can be replaced rather than the whole body. The motor will be a solid composite motor using HTPB and Ammonium perchlorate as the oxidizer inside an aluminum casing. These components are being designed and tested by the students so that they can work in perfect harmony and meet the design criteria. Almost all of the electronics that are going into the rocket will be purchased and assembled and used to track the rocket's peak altitude, maximum acceleration in all 3 axes, and a GPS will be used to find the rocket after touchdown.
Goals
With every project, it is the goal of the team to further prepare students to be better engineers and to think outside the box. Students can gain a lot of understanding inside of a classroom but working hands-on with projects that require students to use all of their mental resources pushes them to new limits and forms them into engineers with better critical thinking skills to tackle real-world problems after graduation.