Northern Arizona University's mechanical engineering department provides a variety of resources including:
A fully functional machine shop
State-of-the-art design applications
Faculty support
SAE International is a global association of more than 138,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries. SAE International's core competencies are life-long learning and voluntary consensus standards development. SAE International's charitable arm is the SAE Foundation, which supports many programs, including A World In MotionĀ® and the Collegiate Design Series. One of these design series is the SAE Aero competition, which the capstone team will be competing in during 2016.
Their website can be found at: https://www.sae.org