[NCSG Faculty] FAA-Design Competition for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

[Mark Fischer]

Dear Colleague,

I am writing to remind you of the exciting new 
FAA-sponsored design competition for 
undergraduate and graduate students at U.S. 
colleges and universities. The Competition for 
airports gives individual students or teams under 
the guidance of a faculty mentor the chance to 
address a number of challenges relating to 
airport operations and maintenance, runway 
safety/runway incursions, and airport 
environmental interactions. Students can win cash 
prizes for outstanding work and the opportunity 
to present their work in a professional forum. 
The challenges embrace many engineering and 
science disciplines and can be readily used as 
part of a course, independent study, or as a 
project undertaken by a student professional 
society. Students are also effectively linked to 
airport operators and experts who can help them 
assess the efficacy of their proposed designs/solutions.

Complete guidelines and information are available at the Competition
website: 
<http://www.faa.gov/runwaysafety/design_competition.htm>http://www.faa.gov/runwaysafety/design_competition.htm. 
This is your source for background information, 
proposal guidelines, submission of the required 
Notice of Intent, and design proposal submission.

Last date to submit designs is April 20, 2007.

Please forward this email to anyone you feel may 
have an interest in the Competition and don’t 
hesitate to contact us if you have a question.



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Mark Fischer
Associate Director
NC Space Grant
NCSU Research Building II
1009 Capability Drive, Suite 210
Raleigh, NC 27695
919-515-5933
919-515-5934 (Fax)
http://www.ncspacegrant.org/