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Wright State is set to host a challenge for universities nationwide to come up with a system for battlefield airmen to scale buildings.
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s 2012 Service Academy and University Engineering Challenge will be held at its Tactical Laboratory, Calamityville, in Fairborn.
Engineering students and their faculty advisors from 17 universities nationwide and three service academies will be competing in this year’s challenge to design, fabricate and demonstrate a system to allow battlefield airmen, along with their equipment, to scale buildings or mountain faces under a variety of conditions.
Among the universities competing are Wright State University, the University of Dayton, Arizona State, Ohio State, Colorado State and Johns Hopkins University.
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