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UK students to compete in UAS Challenge at Bruntingthorpe

UK university students will be competing in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Challenge which is to take place at Bruntingthorpe on 1 and 2 July 2015.

Fourteen UK university teams will be convening at Bruntingthorpe Airfield in Leicestershire at the beginning of next month to pit their purpose-built life-saving unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) against each other in a new competition by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

The undergraduate teams have been tasked to design and build an unmanned aircraft system for a representative humanitarian mission. The winner of the challenge will be presented with a trophy on Thursday 2 July by Professor Richard Folkston, President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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The universities taking part are:
• University of Bath
• University of Glasgow
• University of Hertfordshire
• Loughborough University
• University of Liverpool
• University of Nottingham
• Queens University, Belfast
• University of Sheffield
• Sheffield Hallam University
• University of Southampton (two teams)
• University of Surrey
• University of Swansea
• University of the West of England

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