The AERO 490 Aircraft Design Capstone Project is a unique aerospace capstone project experience where a group of 30+ students from across the engineering disciplines spend a year together designing a full-sized aircraft to a realistic Request for Proposal (RFP) authored by the NCADE in collaboration with the program’s industrial sponsors. The students form an aircraft design and development organization modelled after an actual aerospace design department at a typical aerospace manufacturing company. Each student assumes both an administrative and a technical role within the group and the students work together under the supervision of the NCADE to develop an aircraft with all systems on board by the end of the academic year.