This semester marked a major learning phase for our IPPD team as we began developing our re-entry “Design for Demise” solution for Honeywell Aerospace. Our primary objective was to build a strong foundation in ANSYS Fluent, understand the aerodynamic behavior… Read More
SLDR Peer Review Presentation – Blog #12, 11/21/2025
This week in IPPD was all about preparing for our upcoming System Level Design Review (SLDR). Although we didn’t make major technical changes, we made important progress in refining how we communicate our project and ensuring we’re ready for the… Read More
SLDR Preparations – Blog #11, 11/14/2025
This week our team has been preparing for one of the most important milestones in our project, the System Level Design Review (SLDR). This phase marks our transition from conceptual validation to detailed system refinement, where we must demonstrate a… Read More
Prototype Inspection Day – Blog #10, 11/7/2025
This week marked an exciting milestone for our IPPD team as we participated in Prototype Inspection Day (PID) at the University of Florida. During this event, we presented our project to a panel of IPPD alumni, technical professors, and academic… Read More
PID Prep – Blog #9, 10/31/2025
Hey crew! We’re rounding out Week 10 with some heavy‑lifting in prep for the prototype inspection day. This week’s highlights: The Krging that makes the world spin Dr. Lind presented a short lecture on surrogate based modeling, called kriging. This will… Read More
Prototyping – Blog #8, 10/24/2025
This week we spent a lot of time discussing what our prototype presentation was going to look like. Because our project is much more research and development than the other projects, we needed to find a way to present our… Read More
A Successful PDR – Blog #7, 10/17/2025
On Tuesday, October 14th, 2025, the team traveled down to Clearwater to present our PDR to our sponsor Honeywell Aerospace. The teams presentation went great and we enjoyed being able to tour the site. This PDR event was a large… Read More
PDR Maxxing – Blog #6, 10/10/2025
These past two weeks have been very hectic in team ARC. We had our peer reviewed PDR presentation on Tuesday 10/7 and got some very valuable feedback from professors on our preliminary design. We also made a new block diagram… Read More
ANSYS – Blog #5, 10/3/2025
Hey folks! We’re almost there with our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and wanted to give you a quick, behind‑the‑scenes look at what we’ve been chewing on this week. We’re talking P‑frust (a new way to say “pyramidal frustum”) Visually The Crew… Read More
Pyramidal Frustum – Blog #4, 9/26/2025
Above is our first SolidWorks model, a pyramidal frustum with flaps that open up to both increase surface area and stability during re-entry. One of the main issues of design for demise is how difficult it is to simulate re-entry… Read More
Origami…maybe? – Blog #3, 9/19/2025
This week, our team finalized a few specific concepts to pursue based on our research. One of the most promising is a multistage opening system designed to control how the structure breaks down during re-entry. The idea is to use… Read More
A New Beginning – Blog #2, 9/12/25
This week, our team successfully finalized our logo and name. For the team’s name, we have agreed upon “A.R.C.”, which stands for Atmospheric Re-Entry Control. Furthermore, this week was the first time we met our Honeywell Liaisons through Teams and… Read More
The Beginning – Blog #1, 9/5/25
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