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A&M students to help test design prototype at world's first Hyperloop Test Track
22 teams head to California this summer to test prototype
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Texas A&M University officials said 22 student teams will head to California this summer to test their design prototype at the world's first Hyperloop Test Track.
The university said more than 115 student engineering teams representing 27 U.S. states and 20 countries were at Texas A&M University this weekend participating in SpaceX's Hyperloop Pod Competition Design Weekend.
The teams had presented their plans for the overall pod design and were judged based on a variety of criteria, which included innovation and uniqueness of design, full Hyperloop system applicability and economics, level of design detail, strength of supporting analysis and tests, feasibility for test tract competition, and quality of documentation and presentation, officials said.
"Congratulations to the finalists and all the student teams who competed in the first-ever SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition," said Chancellor John Sharp. "I am especially proud of Aerospace Hyperloop, a finalist representing Texas A&M University and its world-class engineering program in the next round."
According to the university, the top five student teams for the design and build category were:
Best Overall Design Award
MIT Hyperloop Team, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pod Innovation Award
Delft Hyperloop, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Pod Technical Excellence Award
Badgerloop, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pod Technical Excellence Award
Hyperloop at Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech
Pod Technical Excellence Award
HyperXite, University of California Irvine
Other teams that will advance to the competition weekend in California include:
rLoop (non-student team)
uWaterloo Hyperloop, University of Waterloo
UWashington Hyperloop, University of Washington
University of Toronto, University of Toronto
RUMD Loop, University of Maryland and Rutgers University
GatorLoop, University of Florida
Team HyperLynx, University of Colorado-Denver
Hyperloop UC, University of Cincinnati
USCB Hyperloop, University of California-Santa Barbara
bLoop, University of California-Berkeley
TAMU Aerospace Hyperloop, Texas A&M
WARR Hyperloop, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Purdue Hyperloop Design Team, Purdue University
Codex, Oral Roberts University
Lehigh Hyperloop, Lehigh University
Keio Alpha, Keio University
Drexel Hyperloop, Drexel University
Carnegie Mellon Hyperloop, Carnegie-Mellon University
"World-changing events such as this do not happen often, so to be able to say one took place at Texas A&M is truly special," said Michael K. Young, president of Texas A&M. "It is our hope that everyone who participated uses the momentum from this historic meeting of young innovators to go out into the world and continue to create and innovate. This weekend's competition proves the future is in very good hands with such an inspiring and talented group of young people, many of whom are right here at Texas A&M. Congratulations to all the young men and women and their teams headed to California and that certainly includes Texas A&M’s Aerospace Hyperloop team."
"The future of engineering was on display this weekend in College Station," said M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of Texas A&M Engineering. "We challenge our students to step outside their comfort zones and approach engineering problems in novel ways. The young men and women at this competition definitely accomplished that, and presented design and technical concepts that were well beyond anyone’s expectations."
The university said technical awards were also awarded to student teams whose designs displayed outstanding technical merit in subsystem and design.
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