Practice 01
Consulting advisory
Strategy and operations engagements for aerospace and defense companies, scoped so that one semester is enough to finish the work.
You get a client, a question, and a deadline.
Wharton Undergraduate Aerospace Club
Financial and consulting advisory for aerospace and defense.
A Penn club whose members do client work in an industry where the engineering, the money, and the policy all have to agree before anything flies.
Open to every Penn undergraduate.
Committees
Join one. Stay with it for the year.
Practice 02
Financial advisory
Valuation, market sizing, and capital markets work across primes, suppliers, and launch.
The customer is often a government, and the contracts run for decades.
Committee 03
Research and innovation
Collegiate competitions and original work on clean aviation, sustainability, and the infrastructure that aircraft depend on.
This is the committee that won the NASA award.
Committee 04
Conference
Programming and speakers, including support for the annual Wharton Aerospace Conference and the club's own events on campus.
Speakers, and the annual conference.
Almost nobody in that room is flying anything. They are deciding, budgeting, arguing, and signing off. That is the work.
Image: NASA
Critical Orbit
Co-sponsored Penn Carey Law's symposium on regulating the next generation of space technology.
Skyler Shuford
Fireside chat with the CEO of Reaxiomatic and founder of Hermeus, on building a hypersonics company.
NASA Gateways to Blue Skies
Most Intriguing Concept, for a modular carbon-negative airport design.
Four years of work, kept in one place.
See the full recordJoin
Start at a general body meeting.
Open to every Penn undergraduate. Committees admit by application in the fall and the spring.