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.

Team Photos


2022-2023 Team Photo

2022-2023 Team Photo

2020-2021 Team Photo

2018-2019 Team Photo

2016-2017 Team Photo

2021-2022 Team Photo

2019-2020 Team Photo

2017-2018 Team Photo

2015-2016 Team Photo