SEDS/ Illinois Tech Rocketry

Organization Information

Get valuable experience with Illinois Tech Rocketry as we build high-powered rockets for competitions. We build high-powered rockets up to 30k apogee as well as provide workshops on individual rocketry certification and composite layups. You will have the opportunity to learn rocket structures, payload, avionics, aerodynamics, and/or propulsion, owning your projects from start to finish, all while getting the resumes lines you need to stand out from the competition.

 

Organization Mission:

To promote space exploration and development through educational and hands-on engineering projects.

 

Welcome from Leadership:

Hello students! Rockets are awesome and this is the only place on campus you're going to get an opportunity to work on them. Want to work in the aerospace industry? This team is where you'll get the experience aerospace companies are looking for. No experience necessary to join because this is the place you'll get it!

Organization Officers

Andy de Fonesca                     Chief Engineer                                                             adefonseca@hawk.iit.edu 

Michael Gromski                      Safety Office and Lead Avionics Engineer               mgromski@hawk.iit.edu 

Kristin Petersen                       Lead Payload Engineer                                               kpetersen1@hawk.iit.edu 

Christian Valois                       Lead Structures Engineer                                           cvalois@hawk.iit.edu 

Kejsi Bishaj                              Lead Aerodynamicist                                                  kbishaj@hawk.iit.edu 

Han Duong                               Lead Propulsion Engineer                                          hduong2@hawk.iit.edu 

Elizabeth Karagiannes           Head of Business                                                         ekaragiannes@hawk.iit.edu

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