Team DAELead from the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong has been chosen by a panel of experts because the winners of the worldwide Airbus Fly Your Ideas 2017 student competition. Team DAELead beat out stiff competition to win the primary prize of €30,000 for his or her effective design of the passenger footwell private storage compartment (PSC).
The final stage of the competition took place this week in Toulouse, France. Five chosen student teams – chosen from 365 applications in Round 1 – were invited to spend per week on the Airbus ProtoSpace facility to visualise, prototype and test their ideas using state-of-the-art equipment, before presenting them to a panel of educational and Airbus and aviation experts.
Team DAELead revolutionizes passenger space by making full use of the space between the cabin floor and the cargo ceiling to supply passengers with personal luggage space. The jurors were impressed by their vision and skills, seeing such a straightforward but effective solution to enhance passenger comfort.
The runners-up were the Aquarius team from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia, who won €15,000 for his or her radical concept that transforms a business airliner right into a tool for stopping fierce wildfires.
Three Indonesian students on Team Passex studying on the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises – IAE Toulouse, ISAE Supaero and Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) in France were among the many five finalists of the Airbus “Fly Your Ideas” competition.
Using a real-time mobile app that assigns boarding status to passengers based on baggage size, they were the primary Indonesian students to achieve the finals since 2008, beating out 365 entries from world wide.
Airbus Fly Your Ideas, now in its fifth 12 months in partnership with UNESCO, goals to encourage the subsequent generation of innovators from world wide.
“In Fly Your Ideas 2017, Airbus brings its innovation expertise to work with universities and their most imaginative students,” said Charles Champion, Airbus executive vp of engineering.
“We value and encourage this type of mutually beneficial collaboration, enabling students to use their creativity in an exceptionally rich learning environment and prepare for a highly competitive job market. For Airbus, this is an opportunity to nurture new ideas from the creative and unbridled thinking of fresh minds.”
In 2017, a record number of just about 5,500 students from all around the world entered the competition. This 12 months’s finalist teams represent nine different nationalities and eight universities from Africa, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Since the Fly Your Ideas competition was launched in 2008, over 20,000 students from over 650 universities in over 100 countries world wide have participated.
More information will be found at http://www.airbus-fyi.com
