8th IREC (2013)

Congratulations to the following winning teams in the 8th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition!

Winning Teams:

Basic Category: (10-lb payload closest to 10,000 ft AGL):
1st Place: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Canada) 
                 "Zephyr 2"  (2nd year in a row!)
2nd Place: ETS Montreal (Canada) 
                 "RockETS"

Advanced Category (10-lb payload closest to 25,000 ft AGL):
1st Place: New Mexico Tech 
                 "SCEPTER"
2nd Place: No other teams reached half the target altitude to qualify

Jim Furfaro Award for Technical Excellence:
Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (Brazil)
                 "Santos-Dumont"

Participating Teams:

Basic Category (10,000 ft)

• Brigham Young University
  
• Case Western Reserve University
  
• Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Canada)
  
• ETS Montreal (Canada)
  
• Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (Brazil)
  
• Istanbul Technical University (Turkey)
  
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech)
  
• Ryerson University (Canada)
  
• University of Michigan
  
• University of Missouri
  
• University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (India)
  
• University of Toronto (Canada)
  
• University of Washington
  
• University of Waterloo (Canada)
  

Advanced Category (25,000 ft)

• California State University-Los Angeles
  
• Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Canada)
  
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech)
  
• University of California-Los Angeles

Technical Papers (Advanced Category):
California State University, Los Angeles
New Mexico Tech
Polytechnique Montreal
UCLA