Senior Design Expo 2019
The Senior Design Expo, held annually in May at Columbia University, is an opportunity for Columbia Engineering students to showcase what they have learned in their foundational math and science courses together with their engineering courses in innovative, creative, and purposeful designs and prototypes. Each year the Expo showcases more than 60 projects across all nine departments. Projects have included cutting-edge robotics, the New York City subway system, language technology, proposals for bridges to span the Hudson river, and much more.
The Senior Design Expo, held annually in May at Columbia University, is an opportunity for Columbia Engineering students to showcase what they have learned in their foundational math and science courses together with their engineering courses in innovative, creative, and purposeful designs and prototypes. Each year the Expo showcases more than 60 projects across all nine departments. Projects have included cutting-edge robotics, the New York City subway system, language technology, proposals for bridges to span the Hudson river, and much more.
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VTOAL Aircraft<br />
The Wright Siblings: Simon Anuszczyk,<br />
Rebecca Brunsberg, Haeyeon Jang, John<br />
Pederson, Lily Zhao<br />
Advisor: Josh Browne<br />
The Swinger is a tandem-wing aircraft<br />
capable of both VTOL (Vertical Take-Off<br />
and Landing) and airplane flight through in<br />
flight wing rotation, combining the best<br />
qualities of a drone with those of an airplane.<br />
It has four rotors, four 9.5 inch diameter<br />
propellers, and two meter-long foam wings<br />
attached with carbon fiber rod.<br />
Drone Mode:<br />
Drone mode facilitates VTOL, allowing for<br />
the aircraft to take off from and land in a<br />
small area without a long runway.<br />
It has two flight modes depicted on the right.<br />
It has landing gear, and control surfaces on<br />
the back wing to allow for pitch, yaw, and<br />
roll.<br />
Plane Mode:<br />
Plane mode allows the lift from the wings to<br />
aid in maintaining the lower power<br />
requirement of an airplane (compared to a<br />
drone), allowing us to travel further distances<br />
on the same battery life.<br />
The craft will take off in drone mode, tilt its<br />
wings 90° to change to plane mode, then tilt<br />
its wings back 90° to land in drone mode.<br />
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