UAS Challenge 2025 registration extended

Don't miss your chance to get involved in this exciting aerospace challenge.

To accommodate the needs of all teams, the IMechE has extended registration for the UAS Challenge 2025 until 10 November 2024; to register your team, please visit the UAS Challenge registration website.

Student teams undertake a full design and build life-cycle of an autonomous Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) with a maximum take off mass of 10kg to undertake specific mission objectives, culminating in a final fly-off event in July the following year where teams demonstrate their UAS and have their design work and business cases evaluated in formal presentations.

Teams currently booked for this year's challenge include 2024 winners Beihang University from China, together with over 35 universities from around the world, including:

• Heriot Watt University
• University of Wolverhampton
• De Montfort University
• University of the West England, Bristol
• University of Sheffield
• Swansea University
• Loughborough University
• University of Southampton
• Estonian Aviation Academy
• NMITE
• University of Leeds
• The University of Manchester
• University of Bologna
• University of Leicester
• Università degli studi di Genova
• University of Surrey
• University of Bath
• University College Dublin
• Sheffield Hallam University
• University of Aveiro 
• Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV)
• University of Twente
• Beihang University
• University College London (UCL)
• Istanbul Technical University
• Cranfield University 
• King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
• Coventry University
• Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
• Politecnico di Milano
• Imperial College London
• The University of Dundee
• University of Bristol
• Cranfield University
• King Abdulaziz University

For those teams who have registered; the UAS Challenge project team have emailed confirmations to faculty advisors and team leaders, alongside Mashoom details to enable document uploads throughout the coming challenge year, if you need further details please email uas.challenge@imeche.org.

All teams will join us for the UAS Challenge 2025 Welcome Webinar on 13 November 2024 for a detailed overview of the Challenge, get new team members up to speed, ask questions to the judges and start your design work.