Wharton Undergraduate Aerospace Club
Events, awards, and work since the club was founded, most recent first.
Maintained by the board.
Since
Established at Penn during the 2020 to 2021 academic year.
WUAC co-sponsored Critical Orbit: Regulating the Next Generation of Space Tech, a symposium at Penn Carey Law with panels on commercial space, aerospace governance, policy, and national security.
Co-sponsor, with Penn Carey Law.
Type
Policy and national security.
Philadelphia, on campus.
A virtual conversation with the CEO of Reaxiomatic and founder of Hermeus, on building a hypersonic aircraft company: raising money against a development curve measured in years, and choosing which government customer to build for.
Speaker event, run by the Conference committee.
A six-student University of Pennsylvania team from WUAC was one of eight finalists in NASA's inaugural Gateways to Blue Skies: Airports of Tomorrow competition, with a proposal called Carbon Negative: A Modular Approach to Advancing Green Airport Infrastructure.
The concept paired direct air capture with electrified aircraft and ground operations. NASA awarded the team Most Intriguing Concept and invited it to present to the Las Vegas Airport Strategic Planning Committee.
Entered by the research committee.
Award
One of eight finalists nationally.
NASA Aeronautics.
Founded for students interested in the operational and commercial side of aviation and space rather than in aircraft design alone. Organizing work began during the 2020 to 2021 academic year.
Join
Open to every Penn undergraduate.
Related
Both admit at application time.