FAA is continuing to offer a Design Competition for Universities for the 2013– 2014 academic year! The Competition has added new design categories in each challenge area and retained many previous categories as well. The Competition is often used as part of a design class, but has also been used for independent study and as a student professional society project.
The Competition guidelines and many resources are posted at the Competition website:
http://FAADesignCompetition.odu.edu
The broad challenge categories are: Airport Operations and Maintenance; Runway Safety/Runway Incursions/Runway Excursions; Airport Environmental Interactions, Airport Management and Planning, and Innovative Application of FAA Data. These five challenges transcend many engineering, science, information technology, psychology, and management disciplines. The Competition is again open to individual and student teams at U.S. colleges and universities (both undergraduate and graduate) working under the mentorship of a faculty advisor. Winners can earn substantial cash awards and first place winners have the opportunity and travel funds to present their design at FAA Headquarters summer 2014 and at one other professional meeting related to their winning design. A notice of intent is strongly encouraged. To date, more than 1250 students from 63 universities working with 93 faculty advisors have participated in the Competition.