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Michigan Sustainability Applications for Aerospace Vehicle Engineering
ABOUT
Michigan Sustainability Applications for Aerospace Vehicle Engineering is a project team at the University of Michigan started by passionate aerospace students that care about sustainability and humanitarian aerospace missions. Our mission is to improve the human condition through targeted application of aerospace vehicles and engineering. We are an interdisciplinary student project team which was established in January 2021
because a group of students saw a gap in humanitarian driven projects at the university. Our team is passionate about engineering for the greater good and also DEI in STEM fields. We are currently funded by FXB Flight Vehicle Institute.
2021
Year Established
50
Members
60%
Women in Leadership
11
Different Majors
TEAM
STRUCTURE
HUM
WAM
Humanitarian UAV Mission
M-SAAVE HUM (est 2021) has partnered with Air Serv International a non-profit humanitarian relief org based out of sub-Saharan Africa that provides aviation services including transportation of goods, medical supplies, and relief workers, medical evacuations, and repatriating displaced persons.
In partnership with this org, we hope to expand their reach into unmanned operations by delivering an aerial vehicle to be capable of discrete missions, equipped with an airdrop payload delivery to supply medical supplies and food to unreached people, and also have a mapping payload for aerial surveillance in disaster management.
Wheelchair Accessibility Mission
On the average commercial flight, there are no emergency egress operations for individuals who use wheelchairs, as well as no accommodations for seating accessibility or the boarding and de-planing process. M-SAAVE WAM (est 2022) is working with Collins Aerospace to implement a wheelchair accessible modification to a Boeing 737-8M, that would allow people who use wheelchairs to remain in their wheelchair for the duration of a flight.
M-SAAVE WAM will begin their second design iteration during the 2023-2023 academic year, of an aluminum honeycomb plinth which will house a locking mechanism that locks in WC-19 certified wheelchairs.
Our Faculty Advisors
Our Faculty Advisors and Founders were integral members in the motivation for founding M-SAAVE under the purpose to addressing the United Nations SDG's. The team would not have been founded without their assistance and direction on team mission, project goals, and resource management. They also worked to secure M-SAAVE's relationship with the FXB Flight Institute, whom we are proudly sponsored by.
Get Involved!
Come to our meetings! We welcome new members at any point. There is no application process or member requirements!
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Full Team Meetings W24:
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HUM: Sundays 3-5pm in Gorgruze Family Laboratory room 224 and Wednesdays 6-8pm in the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering building room 134
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WAM: Sundays 12-2 in Francois Xavier Bagnoud Building room 1250 and Thursdays 5-7pm in the Duderstadt Center room BXXX
Thank you to our Sponsors!
CONTACT
Inquiries
For any inquiries, questions or commendations, please email: msaave.officers@gmail.com or fill out the form to the right
Social Media
Instagram: @msaave_umich
LinkedIn: Link to M-SAAVE Page
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