About Us
The Advanced Rocketry Club at the University of North Dakota is a student-led organization that competes in high-power rocketry competitions. While working with both solid and liquid propulsion, the club is dedicated to designing, manufacturing, testing, and launching competition-level rockets. Through hands-on experience in propulsion, composites, vehicle structure, and manufacturing, our club helps students develop both technical expertise and strong teamwork skills. The team currently competes in two competitions, one solid propulsion and one liquid propulsion, that allow students to apply real-world engineering skills learned in their classes to an actual project.
Current Competitions
The UND Advanced Rocketry Club competes in two main competitions. Our annual competition, IREC (International Rocket Engineering Competition), put on by the ESRA, is the world’s largest university rocket engineering competition. Their goal with this competition is to motivate students to design, build, and fly a solid-propulsion rocket with a scientific payload, similar to real-world scenarios in future careers. The other main competition the club participates in is the CPLC (Collegiate Propulsive Lander Challenge), which challenges teams to build a self-landing liquid-propelled lander. This is a milestone-based competition that encourages teams to collaborate and regularly share research and testing results.
Contact Us
Location
Upson Hall I Room 113 - 2934 Campus Rd, Grand Forks, ND 58203