A University of Maryland team took first place in a NASA engineering contest, for the third straight year.
The team won the undergraduate division of NASA’s 2010 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage, a contest that challenged students to solve real-life space exploration challenges.
The Maryland group teamed up with students from the Arizona State University for their entry, “Project RAVEN: Robotic Assist Vehicle for Extraterrestrial Navigation.”
Judged by NASA, industry and academic experts, the team competed against 19 other schools, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Virginia Tech, Princeton University and Harvard University.
