Dr Ranjan Vepa
BTech(IITMadras) MASc(Wat) PhD(Stan)

 

Research Group News

January 2025

The students at the entrance to the conference hall

Undergraduate Engineering students present at AIAA SciTech Conference in Orlando, Florida

27 January 2025

A group of 3rd and 4th year aerospace and mechanical engineering undergraduate students presented their project in person at the AIAA SciTech Conference in Orlando this January. Their participation followed their first-place win at the AIAA Regional Student Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, last November. The visit was jointly supported … [more]

University students visiting the CubeSat Support Facility during the CubeSat Concurrent Engineering Workshop 2024 (c) European Space Agency

Two students accepted onto European Space Agency workshop

21 January 2025

Ahmed Yar Fakhri and Jhonatan Andres Andino Rivera, both MEng Aerospace Engineering students on the CubeSat Project group supervised by Dr Ranjan Vepa, were accepted onto a prestigious weekend-long workshop with the European Space Agency (ESA). They submitted their application based on their project titled Project DigiCube Design and Implementation … [more]


November 2024

The horizontal axis wind turbine rotor that was studied

Undergraduate team wins first prize at AIAA Student Conference in Melbourne

27 November 2024

A team of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering third and fourth-year students has won first prize in the team presentation category at the prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Student Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, on 25th and 26th November, competing against 13 other international entries. The team investigated the … [more]


October 2024

Structural stress analysis of the turbine's blades

Student research paper accepted to AIAA Student Conference

27 October 2024

A group of undergraduate students, including fourth year (MEng) aerospace and mechanical engineering students Milcha Masresha , Andrews Agyei , Raima Rahman, Omar Abdi, Aamna Abbasi and Imad Foughali, and third year aerospace student Hardit Saini, have successfully had their research paper on wind turbines accepted to the American Institute of Aeronautics … [more]


April 2024

Illustration of a small H type vertical axis wind turbine

British Council support joint wind energy research project with VIT Chennai

3 April 2024

The British Council supports a joint masters educational-research project between Queen Mary and Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Chennai. The masters will research distributed wind energy for urban and rural requirements, integration and energy conversion. The project consortium also consists of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras India and … [more]


February 2024

Students present their CubeSat projects

Aerospace students accepted onto European Space Agency residency

1 February 2024

Three out of seven members of the Aerospace Engineering MEng Project Group have been accepted to participate in the European Space Agency's (ESA) prestigious CubeSat Concurrent Engineering Workshop. The four-day workshop will take place from February 20th to 23rd at the ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility … [more]


January 2024

SEMS MENG project group members accepted for CUBESAT Concurrent Engineering Workshop at ESA

22 January 2024

SEMs is pleased to report that 3 out 7 of a MENG Project group, Hamza Maljee; Emil Sieciechowicz; Kevin Zyka, were accepted into the ESA CubeSats Engineering Workshop! It is scheduled to take place between Tuesday, February 20th to Friday, February 23rd. The award is from ESA, to the students, to support … [more]