Hypersonic Vehicle Design

This project was apart of a Hypersonic Vehicle Design Course taught by Dr. Keven Bowcutt, The Boeing Company's Chief Scientist of Hypersonics. The course was designed as a competition between Utah State University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Maryland. Each team was required to perform a market analysis, identify a profitable mission profile, and conceptualize an aircraft architecture. 

Each team chose the business case they felt would have the greatest return on investment. Each design was judged by industry leaders from AFRL, DARPA, NASA, and Boeing on aerodynamics, propulsion, aero-thermal,  structures, configuration, trajectory optimization, stability and control, and mission/cost.

The USU team designed a Mach 5-passenger jet capable of carrying 20 passengers over 4500 nmi in under 2 hours. This aircraft was chosen as the competition's winner at the semester's end. 

I was the Lead Inlet Designer for this Project