Cornell Rocketry Team

Cornell Rocketry Team (CRT) is a student-led engineering project team at Cornell University. Consisting of students from four different colleges within the university, CRT strives to push the limits on high-power rocketry and build innovative and sustainable payloads. The team is currently competing in the 2017-2018 NASA University Student Launch competition with their rocket, Flammea, and its payload, the Deployable Rover System (DRS).

As part of the team's educational series on high-power rocketry, members build and launch Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 high-power rockets. Most local launches occur as part of Upstate Research Rocketry Group (URRG), sanctioned as Tripoli Rocketry Association (TRA) Prefecture #139 and National Association of Rocketry (NAR) Section #765.

CRT's faculty advisor is Dr. Daniel Selva and the team's faculty mentor is Daniel Sheerer. The current team leads are Bryan Zheng (AEP '19), Chris Fedors (ECE '18), and Stephanie Chang (CS '20).

Expectations of Team Members

As a competitive project team, CRT holds its members to high standards. Below are some of the basic expectations of being a CRT member.

General Expectations

All team members must:

• maintain a positive working environment
• meet deadlines assigned to them
• not be on another project team while they are an active member of CRT
• attend the weekly all team meeting unless exempted by the team leads
• work in accordance to the amount of credit hours they have signed up for
• fill out a weekly progress report form
• write about their contributions to the team on the wiki

Communication

• All team members should check their email regularly
• All team members check slack regularly
  • Be sure to turn on notifications
• All team slides

Team Structure

CRT maintains a functional team structure, consisting of six subteams in addition to the team leads. For more information on each subteam, follow the links below.

• Airframe
• Business
• Communications (Comms)
• Electrical and Software (E&S)
• Independent Testing and Validation (INTEV)
• Payload

Documentation

Documenting our progress throughout the life cycle of each project is a very important part of what CRT does. Every system that CRT develops is has been extensively documented in our documentation that we submit to NASA every year. We use shareLaTeX for writing our technical reports.

Documentation from Previous Years

One of the best ways to learn how we do documentation is to read some of it!

• NASA SL 2017-2018
• NASA SL 2016-2017
• NASA SL 2015-2016
• NASA SL 2014-2015

Guides

• Writing about Safety and Hazards
• Style Guide
• ShareLaTeX Guide
• Technical Writing Guide
• Solidworks Training
• Controls Basics