This is Rice University’s Chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), which has for many years promoted aerospace education, development, and competition. Rice’s chapter promoting this vastly expanding industry by hosting competition teams, speakers, and events for the Rice campus. The chapter hosts two competition teams: SUAS and DBF. SUAS: Student Unmanned Aerial Systems The SUAS competition focuses on the development of an unmanned aerial system (UAS). The competition requires students to design, integrate, and demonstrate a UAS capable of autonomous flight, remote sensing via onboard sensors, and execution of a specific set of tasks including object avoidance, image recognition, and payload delivery. The team will be working to design and fabricate their own aerial vehicle and develop the control systems to operate it. DBF: Design, Build, Fly. Design, Build, Fly is an AIAA competition in which teams design, fabricate, and demonstrate the flight capabilities of an unmanned, electric powered, radio controlled aircraft that can best meet the specified mission profile, which changes every year. The goal is a balanced design possessing good demonstrated flight handling qualities and practical and affordable manufacturing requirements while providing a high vehicle performance.