WUAC

Wharton Undergraduate Aerospace Club

Financial and consulting advisory for aerospace and defense.

A Penn club whose members do client advisory work, research, and events across four committees.

Open to every Penn undergraduate.

Committees

Members serve on one committee for the year.

Practice 01

Consulting advisory

Strategy and operations engagements for aerospace and defense companies, scoped so that one semester is enough to finish the work.

One scoped deliverable a semester.

Practice 02

Financial advisory

Valuation, market sizing, and capital markets work across primes, suppliers, and launch.

Company and segment coverage.

A researcher holding a small dark aerodynamic model, lit against a blue background.

Committee 03

Research and innovation

Collegiate competitions and original work on clean aviation, sustainability, and the infrastructure that aircraft depend on.

Took NASA's Most Intriguing Concept award in 2022.

Committee 04

Conference

Programming and speakers, including support for the annual Wharton Aerospace Conference and the club's own events on campus.

Campus events and the annual conference.

A wide view of a NASA flight control room, rows of consoles facing a projected world map.

The club's work sits on the commercial and policy side of aerospace and defense rather than the engineering side.

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.

Entries since the club was founded in 2021.

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General body meetings are open to all Penn undergraduates.

Committees admit by application in the fall and the spring.

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