The Official Rutgers Chapter of AIAA
Rutgers AIAA was the first to establish itself as the leading organization for undergraduate students interested in topics related aerospace at Rutgers University, and as been achieving greatness ever since.
June 2025
RRPL attended IREC and won 2nd place in the 45k COTS category
April 2025
RU Airborne attended the AIAA Design Build Fly Competition and finished 10th out of 112 universities in Technical Design Category
April 2024
RU Airborne attended the AIAA Design Build Fly Competition and finished 12th out of 107 universities in technical review
April 2023
RU Airborne attended the AIAA Design Build Fly Competition and finished 39th out of 99 universities
June 2022
RRPL participated in IREC Spaceport America Cup for 30K COTS and won the 360 GoPro Video Challenge via a drone payload
June 2022
RUAutonomous attended the Student Unmanned Ariel Systems competition and finished 25th out of 71 teams
April 2022
RU Airborne attended the AIAA Design Build Fly Competition 29th out of 97 universities
June 2018
RRPL entered the IREC Spaceport America Cup for 10K COTS, had a nominal flight within 97% apogee, and won the Team Spirit Award
2017
RRPL was founded.
2016 - 2017
RUAirborne switches from SAE Aero to DBF, proposal places 5th of 138 teams.
2012
RUAutonomous places 7th in AUVSI SUAS competition and receives sportsmanship award.
Our members include engineers of many disciplines, including mechanical/aerospace, electrical, and computer, as well as many non-engineers such as computer science, physics and business majors that all share a common mindset. We welcome anyone who has an interest in aerospace regardless of major, year, or experience level.
