Our Team

University of Alberta Aero Design is a student engineering design group. We are a group of undergraduate students from various disciplines that designs and builds remote controlled aircraft. We aim to provide students experiences in working in a student vehicle project and an exposure to real life challenges engineers face. Members gain valuable practical knowledge and experience in CAD, hands-on construction, control systems and trade studies such as FEA and CFD.

executive team

May 2023 – April 2024
PRESIDENT
Mckenna Warawa

3rd Year Electrical Engineering Co-op
DESIGN LEAD
Deep Rajani

4th Year Mechanical Engineering Co-op
VP FINANCE
Elena Schneider

3rd Year Business
VP OPERATIONS
Katrina Hamdon

2nd Year Mechanical Engineering
VP COMMUNICATIONS
Moeen Faisal

2nd Year Mechanical Engineering

advisors

FACULTY ADVISOR
Dr. Sina Ghaemi, Ph.D, PEng

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Alberta
TECHNICAL ADVISOR
Ethan Chua

Manager, Elko Engineering Garage
University of Alberta

Previous Teams

2023-2024

President: McKenna Warawa
VP Finance: Elena Schneider
VP Communications: Moeen Faisal
VP Operations: Katrina Hamdon

Arno Claassens
Daniel Kichma
Deep Rajani
Eni Oyekanmi
Jacqueline Snider
Jashan Gill
Juan Zuluaga
Michael Caufield
Markus Lear
Ryan Tymkow
Sean Hand
Tatyana Akl

2022-2023

President: Gaurav Bola
VP Finance: Deep Rajani
VP External: Manav Singh Anand
VP Internal: Tanisha Sashu

Daniel Kichma
Mckenna Warawa
Michael Caufield
Markus Lear
Jashan Gill
Ejouan Agena
Jeff Sinclair
Jacqueline Snider
Parker Oishi
Bibek Kahlon