Academic 2018-2019 Make to Innovate Projects
The following is the list of active M:2:I Projects for the 2017-2018 academic year. All active projects also have a website that you can find both in the table and in the drop down menu above.
| Project Logo | Project Name | Faculty Adviser | Project Leader | Project Type | Mission Statement | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | AIAA Design, Build, Fly | Anupam Sharma | Koltyn Voth | Competition | AIAA Design Build Fly team will compete in the annual competition in order to put our knowledge we learn in classrooms into practice, by conducting a hands-on designing, manufacturing and testing. | AIAA DBF Website |
| Boeing Electric Flight | Matthew Nelson | TBA | Industrial | The overall mission for the Boeing Electric Flight project is to explore the viability of an all-electric commercial aircraft designed to replace a Boeing-737-like aircraft with comparable cruise speed, range and passenger capacity. In exploring the viability, the project seeks to develop a lithium air battery as well as explore and optimize non-conventional wing designs for testing. | Boeing Electric Flight Website | |
| Boeing Manufacturing | Matthew Nelson | TBA | Industrial | Our mission is to create a novel automated assembly system for joining wings to fuselage of commercial airplanes that delivers performance, quality, safety and flow time improvements without human interaction. | Boeing Manufacturing Website | |
 | Cardinal Flight | Bella Kim | Joe Cairo | Research | Cardinal Flight pushes the capabilities of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (sUAV) utilizing off the shelf components to create a low cost aerial vehicle with an unconventional configuration allowing for operation in multiple flight regimes. | Cardinal Flight Website |
 | CySat | Tomas Gonzalez-Torres | Mackenzie Kilcoin | Service | CySat plans to design, build and fly, a 3U cube satellite. This cubesat will have the mission of flying a passive radiometer that is able to measure soil moisture. | CySat Website |
 | CySLI | Thomas Ward | Alex Harpenau | Competition | CySLI's mission is to compete in NASA's annual Student Launch competition. CySLI designs and builds a high powered rocket each year to answer the challenges posed by the annual competition. | CySLI Website |
 | DOE Wind Energy | Sri Sritharan | David Jordan | Competition | DOE Wind Energy | |
 | Eagle Eye | Matthew Nelson | Ryan Whitener | Research | To build a aerial vehicle that can assist in planetary exploration of Mars where traditional rovers or humans cannot go. | Eagle Eye Website |
| HABET | Matthew Nelson | Jared Ruzicka | Service | HABET’s mission is to provide a platform for students, professors, and other interested third parties to perform experimentation and design work that would require a high altitude balloon system. | HABET Website | |
| Kerbal Space Capsule | Matthew Nelson | TBA | Service | To build a mock up space capsule and integrate the Kerbal Space Program game with the intent of providing a simulation of rocket engines and orbital mechanics. | KSP Capsule | |
 | MADS-B | Matthew Nelson | Abdullah H Alghamdi | Industrial | To build an ADS-B In and Out that can send and receive information about an aircraft's location and air traffic | MADS-B Website |
 | MAVRIC | Matthew Nelson | Gage Lochner | Competition | MAVRIC is a interdisciplinary team of students working to design, create, and compete a Mars rover in the University Rover Challenge (URC). URC is an international competition which takes place from June 1-3 in Hanksville, UT at the Mars Desert Research Station. | MAVRIC Website |
 | Micro-G | Tomas Gonzalez-Torres | Evan Wieczorek | Competition | The Micro-g project’s mission is to develop tools for NASA which will be used in a micro-gravity environment. The sub teams will submit two tool designs; one for a test campaign at the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) facilities and one to the Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Team (Micro-g NExT) competition. | Micro-G Website |
| Space Habitat | James Alleman | Nevin Smalls | Research | Space Habitat is a project working on constructing a self-sustainable habitat that can operate in the Martian environment. | https://m2i.aere.iastate.edu/spacehabitat/ |
Archived Projects
The following are projects that are no longer active in Make to Innovate. They have been archived here.