Student Rocket Design Competition 2008

The Student Rocket Design Competition is an annual competition of college teams from around the state designing, building, and launching high-power rockets to achieve a set goal.  In its fourth year, the teams competed to design a one-stage rocket that would, following apogee, land safely under an operating parachute(s) and deploy a Ground Excursion Module (GEM). The winner of the competition flight was the team whose rocket completed a successful flight and whose GEV was the farthest from where it first settled on the ground after 5 minutes following touchdown.  Besides launching the rocket, the teams are required to submit a design report on the rocket, do a presentation in front of a panel of judges, and submit a post-launch report analyzing the flight of the rocket.  This year’s launch was quite interesting, with seven teams flying their rockets with many different and creative designs.

Team Participants
Engineering

• I Need to Work on the Condo, Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Marquette Roquetteers, Marquette University
• Knight Hawks, UW-Milwaukee
• Team Carbon Fiber Guys, UW-Milwaukee

Non-Engineering

• Soaring Eagle, College of Menominee Nation
• Five Clans, College of Menominee Nation
• Winter Hawk Clan, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Competition Results
Engineering

1st Place
Carbon Fiber Guys, UW-Milwaukee

• Dr. Eric S. Key, Advisor
• Brandon Blatter, Mechanical Engineering
• Daniel Bloomer, Senior, Mechanical Engineering
• Chris Verink, Senior, Mechanical Engineering
• Jonathan Zeamer, Senior, Mechanical Engineering

2nd Place
I Need to Work on the Condo, Milwaukee School of Engineering

• Dr. William Carnell, Advisor
• Steven Bothe, Senior, Mechanical Engineering
• Neal Bitter, Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering
• Adam Harden, Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering
• Chelsey Jelinski, Junior, Mechanical Engineering
• Joshua Schermerhorn, Senior, Mechanical Engineering

3rd Place
Knight Hawk, UW-Milwaukee

• Dr. Jayson Rock, Advisor
• Daniel Albright, Senior, Mechanical Engineering
• Matthew Foth, Senior, Electrical Engineering
• Stephen Watts, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering

Non-Engineering:
1st Place
Winter Hawk Clan, College of Menominee Nation

• Lisa Annamitta, Sophomore, Human Services
• Christine Skenandore, Sophomore, Business Administration
• Francis Skenandore, Sophomore, Business Management