From Kittyhawk to micro air vehicles, aerospace engineers – like the students in the senior design course – have been the dreamers and doers who have shaped the future of flight. But before these Notre Dame students get a crack at the aerospace industry, they have to pass the aerospace engineering senior design course – the culmination of all that they have learned over the course of their four years in the College of Engineering. As in past years, their task is to design, build, and test a remote piloted aircraft.