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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.<\/p>\n
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s 2012 Service Academy and University Engineering Challenge will be held at its Tactical Laboratory, Calamityville, in Fairborn.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Among the universities competing are Wright State University, the University of Dayton, Arizona State, Ohio State, Colorado State and Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n
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