Design. Build. Compete.
Develop and test cutting-edge aircraft for the international SAE AERO Design competition.
This season, we are heading to Dallas to attend the SAE AERO Design East Competition. We will be competing in all three design classes! This is something new for us and brings up more cost challenges. Please consider donating and making success at competition possible!
Our Mission
Our organization is structured like a professional design team, with real-world design constraints and limitations imposed by time and budget. This realism, coupled with our commitment to professionalism and engineering excellence, has propelled us year after year to highly successful designs and decorated teams. The skills that students utilize as a part of their design work on the team — and the skills they develop during that work — prepare them for success in the industry like no other undergraduate experience. Texas A&M’s SAE AERO Design team is more than a competition team: it is an incubator for future engineering professionals.
We have a track record of success and a reputation for creative, high-performance aircraft. Most recently, we took
1st place overall at the 2024 SAE Aero Design Competition in both the Regular and Micro classes.
Competition
Held every year, the SAE Aero Design competition allows dozens of teams from across the globe to interact, compete, and learn from each other. Each team presents a comprehensive 30-page technical design report, a detailed oral presentation, and demonstrates their aircraft in two days of flight trials.