TEHRAN – The students of Sharif University of Technology Aerospace Faculty won third place in the RAeS International Light Aircraft Design Competition 2022-23.

The sixth edition of RAeS design competitions aimed at promoting innovation in the general aviation aircraft sector. 

This year's competition was supported by the Light Aircraft Association (LAA) and the British Microlight Aircraft Association (BMAA), both of which supervise the building and operation of most of the light aircraft in the UK.

The Iranian team ranked third among 50 participating teams with the design of the LyreBird aircraft.To help combat the adversities faced by countries without immediate access to food and medical supplies, students were tasked with designing an electric aircraft capable of delivering a payload of 100kg, tested and implemented on the X-Plane 11 flight simulator.

The Iranian team, consisting of undergraduate students of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, managed to take third place in this competition out of 50 participating teams with the design of the LyreBird aircraft.

Saman Bakhtiari, Azadeh Izadi, Melika Sabzikari, Parsa Inanlu, Milad Bahadori, Arash Fat’h Lipaei, and Zahra Jouyandeh were the members of the team.

The first two places in this tournament were won by England and Italy, respectively.

The Sharif aircraft design team had previously won first place in the aircraft design section at the AIAA International Aeronautics and Astronautics Competition in 2018-2019.

According to the QS Asia University Rankings 2023, the Sharif University of Technology and the University of Tehran are among the top 100 universities.

Some 12 Iranian universities are listed among the top 760 Asian universities. The Sharif University of Technology and the University of Tehran rank 84 and 92, respectively, which are also among the top 100 institutions.

Universities are evaluated according to the following metrics: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, international research network, citations per faculty, staff with a Ph.D., international faculty ratio, and international student ratio, and proportion of inbound and outbound exchange students.

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