DAC is a student-run engineering team organized into three technical divisions. We design, manufacture, test, and fly our own hardware, from custom flight computers to competition airframes and robots.
DAC gives students hands-on ownership of real hardware programs: we scope our own projects, source and manage our own budgets, and answer to our own test and safety reviews before anything leaves the shop. Every member works on a division, not a homework assignment.
Every project moves through the same discipline: requirements, design review, build, and a documented test before it flies or competes.
Avionics, Formula FRC, and Rocketry share tooling, a shop, and a review process, so members regularly work across disciplines.
We budget, document, and report the way an industry program would, because our partners and competition judges expect exactly that.
It's on the patch because it's the operating principle: nothing on this team gets built, flown, or fielded that a member didn't design, machine, wire, or code themselves.
Every member sits inside one of three technical divisions. Each runs its own project roadmap, but all three share the same review process, tooling, and shop floor.
Flight computers, sensors, telemetry, and the embedded software and control systems that fly on everything the club builds.
Mechanical design, CAD, manufacturing, and controls for competition robots — from drivetrains to manipulators, design through build and test.
Airframe design, aerodynamics, recovery systems, and simulation, plus propulsion-related research within safe, legal, educational limits.
Every project below is active: in design, build, or test. Filter by division to see what each team is running this term.
Scoped and approved, not yet in build. Timing is an estimate and moves with parts, funding, and test-range availability.
Materials, components, machine time, and funding from the organizations below make our build schedule possible.
We put together a sponsorship package covering visibility, hardware access, and reporting for every tier.
Not every cost fits a sponsorship package. Individual donations cover consumables, travel to competitions, and the small parts that keep a build from stalling.
Donations are processed through our university's student organization fund. You'll get a confirmation and, on request, a receipt for your records.
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Prospective members, sponsors, and press — reach out through whichever channel fits. We respond fastest by email.
