7/2/14: Winners Announced for 9th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition
Congratulations to the following winning teams in the 9th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition!
Basic Category (10-lb payload to 10,000 ft AGL):
1st Place: Oregon State University
2nd Place: ETS Montreal
Advanced Category (10-lb payload to 25,000 ft AGL):
1st Place: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
2nd Place: ETS Montreal
Jim Furfaro Award for Technical Excellence: University of Washington
R.Gilbert Moore Award for Innovation: University of Toronto
Payload Award: Oregon State University
Congratulations to the following winning teams in the 9th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition!
Basic Category (10-lb payload to 10,000 ft AGL):
1st Place: Oregon State University
2nd Place: ETS Montreal
Advanced Category (10-lb payload to 25,000 ft AGL):
1st Place: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
2nd Place: ETS Montreal
Jim Furfaro Award for Technical Excellence: University of Washington
R.Gilbert Moore Award for Innovation: University of Toronto
Payload Award: Oregon State University
6/23/14: A Very Grateful "Thank You" to Our Sponsors
Thank you very much to our sponsors who are providing prize money for the following awards:
Advanced Category First Place ($1000): Sinclair Interplanetary
Advanced Category Second Place ($500): Planetary Systems Corporation
Basic Category First Place ($1000): Northrop Grumman Corporation
Basic Category Second Place ($500): Space Exploration Technologies, Inc. (SpaceX)
Thank you very much to our sponsors who are providing prize money for the following awards:
Advanced Category First Place ($1000): Sinclair Interplanetary
Advanced Category Second Place ($500): Planetary Systems Corporation
Basic Category First Place ($1000): Northrop Grumman Corporation
Basic Category Second Place ($500): Space Exploration Technologies, Inc. (SpaceX)
5/25/14: R. Gilbert Moore Award for Innovation
We are pleased to announce the addition of the R. Gilbert Moore Award for Innovation. It will apply to the rocket and payload, and come with a cash award provided by donors (they will remain anonymous until we verify whether they want to be identified or not). Dr. Moore got his start in the sounding rocket business flying payloads on captured German V-2s at White Sands, New Mexico after WWII. He has long been a champion of direct student involvement in rocketry and space experimentation. He has also been a staunch supporter of the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition since the first one in 2006 (where he was the Guest of Honor).
A summary of the 9th IREC awards is on the new Awards page. Please note the separate Payload Award this year.
We are pleased to announce the addition of the R. Gilbert Moore Award for Innovation. It will apply to the rocket and payload, and come with a cash award provided by donors (they will remain anonymous until we verify whether they want to be identified or not). Dr. Moore got his start in the sounding rocket business flying payloads on captured German V-2s at White Sands, New Mexico after WWII. He has long been a champion of direct student involvement in rocketry and space experimentation. He has also been a staunch supporter of the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition since the first one in 2006 (where he was the Guest of Honor).
A summary of the 9th IREC awards is on the new Awards page. Please note the separate Payload Award this year.
4/16/14: Cool Video from Last Year
Here's a great video put together by the New Mexico Tech team of their launch last year:
Here's a great video put together by the New Mexico Tech team of their launch last year:
9th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) Participants
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"Basic" Category:
Brigham Young Univ.-Idaho Century College California State Univ.-Los Angeles ETS Montreal (Canada) George Washington Univ. Istanbul Technical Univ. (Turkey) ITA (Brazil) Laval University (Canada) New Mexico Tech Oregon State Univ. Polytechnique Montreal (Canada) Purdue Univ. Ryerson Univ, (Canada) UCLA University of Michigan Univ. of Minnesota Univ of Missouri Univ of Puerto Rico Univ. of Toronto (Canada) Univ of Waterloo (Canada) Washington University of St Louis Yale Univ. |
"Advanced" Category:
California State Univ.-Long Beach Case Western Reserve University Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach ETS Montreal (Canada) Istanbul Technical Univ. (Turkey) New Mexico Tech Polytechnique Montreal (Canada) Univ. of Missouri Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Univ. of Washington |
Background:
The Experimental Sounding Rocket Association, founded in 2003, seeks to further the field of experimental sounding rocketry, which we define as roughly between "experimental" or "research" high-power rockets and sounding rockets capable of reaching space (generally defined as 100 km altitude).
The Experimental Sounding Rocket Association, founded in 2003, seeks to further the field of experimental sounding rocketry, which we define as roughly between "experimental" or "research" high-power rockets and sounding rockets capable of reaching space (generally defined as 100 km altitude).
