Student Rocket Design Competition 2009

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 fifth year, the teams competed to design a rocket that has a rocket booster and an unpowered upper-stage which separates from the booster and coasts to apogee. The booster will require a parachute recovery; the dart may use a parachute or streamer recovery depending on its size and weight.  The winner of the competition flight was the team whose rocket completed a successful flight and reached the maximum altitude.  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

• 5 Clans, College of Menominee Nation
• Supernova Rocket Design, Marquette University
• Drew and Crew, Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Rocky Mountain Miners, Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Team Narwhal, Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Redmen, Ripon College
• Saturn V's, UW-Madison
• Team Ramrod, UW-Madison

Non-Engineering

• Apogeemeisters, UW-La Crosse
• MU Warriors, Marquette University
• Schmitt Triggers, UW-La Crosse & Western Technical College
• Viking Rocket Scientists, Lawrence University
  

Competition Results
Engineering

1st Place
Narwhal, Milwaukee School of Engineering

• Dr. William Carnell, Faculty Advisor
• Neal Bitter, Junior, Mechanical Engineering, Fluids or Aerodynamics
• Adam Harden, Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering
• Chelsey Jelinski, Sophomore, Mechanical Eng, Mathematics

2nd Place
Drew and Crew, Milwaukee School of Engineering

• Dudley Outcalt, Faculty Advisor
• Steve Bothe, Industry Advisor
• Drew Falkenburg, Junior, Architectural Engineering
• Wesley Larrabee, Sophomore, Biomedical Engineering
• Caleb Varner, Sophomore, Biomedical Engineering

3rd Place
Rocky Mountain Miners, Milwaukee School of Engineering

• Dr. Glenn Wrate, Faculty Advisor
• Ryan May, Sophomore, Electrical Engineering
• Brian Mortensen, Junior, Electrical Engineering
• Jonathan Neujahr, Junior, Mechanical Engineering

Non-Engineering:
1st Place
Schmitt Triggers, UW-La Crosse & Western Technical College

• Dr. Michael LeDocq, Faculty Advisor
• Brad Hartl, Senior, Physics
• Jacob Wardon, Junior, Physics, Engineering
• Steven Welter, Junior, Electrical/Engineering Tech
• Mark Witte, Junior, Physics