A dedicated team of 20 engineering students from Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering (DJSCE), operating under the banner of DJS Skylark, has proudly secured three worldwide podium finishes at the prestigious SAE Aero Design West 2026 competition. Held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA from April 17 to April 19, the event brought together over 70 top collegiate engineering teams from across the globe to test their aerospace design, manufacturing, and communication prowess.
The SAE Aero Design competition is an elite real-world engineering challenge supported by major industry sponsors such as Lockheed Martin, SolidWorks, ANSYS, MathWorks, On shape, and the Gene Haas Foundation. It tasks university students with compressing a typical aircraft development cycle into a single academic year. Teams must conceptualize, design, fabricate, and fly radio-controlled (RC
