The University of Alberta Aero Design (Aero Design) is a student engineering group that designs and builds a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of flying by remote control and carrying payload. Our team consists of students from a variety of disciplines that work together to design, finance, and build a new aircraft, from the ground up, every year. Members gain valuable, practical knowledge and experience in computer-aided design (CAD), hands-on construction, control systems, and trade studies such as finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).