Infosys and Spirit AeroSystems jointly announce Winners of Sixth Global Design Challenge

Spirit AeroSystems along with Infosys has announced the winners of the Spirit Global Design Challenge (SGDC) 2013. 66 students from thirteen universities across France, India, Russia, Ukraine and the United States participated in this year’s challenge. “Empennage Design”, “Fuselage Design” and “Internal Structures Design” teams emerged as the winning teams.

Ramanathan V, Student Participant, Park College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India, said, “The warmth and patience of our Infosys and Spirit AeroSystems mentors, coupled with the camaraderie I felt amongst my team mates and fellow participants makes our win secondary to the experience as a whole. All of last semester, I excitedly woke up to emails full of new ideas from my team overseas. I look forward to continuing the friendships I have formed into the next phase of our lives as aerospace engineers.”

Now in its sixth year, the Global Design Challenge is a unique industry-academia initiative. It encourages engineering students to think “outside-the-box” while also use new technologies to design processes and aviation structures. The program fosters rich international collaboration to groom the aviation innovators of tomorrow.