18 Aero Club of IIST
Manish Kumar Mishra 2nd Year BTech Aerospace Engineering
AeroClub summer project! Well, if I say that it is possibly the best thing I have experienced at IIST so far, I wouldn’t be wrong. It was an amazing experience and I am extremely thankful to AeroClub for the opportunity. My project was about designing an Ornithopter. We took lots of time to make a good design on paper, however it was expected as we were doing such kind of project for the first time. We really enjoyed working as there was no pressure whatsoever. I am extremely thankful to my mentor, Dr. Kurien Issac for making everything easy for us. Instead of teaching us, he used to discuss with us. This made us really comfortable. I thoroughly enjoyed working with my group mates. Our discussion used to brainstorm all of us in every sense. We were free to try out our ideas and during the manufacturing part, we could apply the knowledge we gained in first year. It was an enriching experience. And now I am extremely confident to take up more projects in future. It was a great learning curve for me. And I believe these are the kind of things which give us confidence to do big things in life. The concept of summer project has a long way to go and I am happy to be a part of it. Thank you.
Tejosmoy Saha 2nd Year BTech Aerospace Engineering
Aero club summer project was a very good platform to carry out the project titled Parameterization of single stage water rocket. The project was a very effective learning experience as we could gain knowledge while gaining on others with respect to some of our courses.This project helped us in implementing our learning which we had gone through in our earlier courses.The project gave us an opportunity to model the very basic of rocket trajectory which can probably be extrapolated while modelling real-time trajectory. We got a very good opportunity to interact with our faculty members who guided us effectively throughout the project duration.We faced many challenges during the project but it was more important to solve those problems which we gained from this project. The problems regarding the availability of components, which were important for our project, was frustrating as it wasted a lot of our time. We are still determined to carry on our project to the next level but this would require extensive help from aero-club.The whole experience was very good and any appreciation would be less