About the Role
A competitive team runs on more than engineering. You'll help manage the budget, track spending, and handle procurement of materials and components, as well as support sponsorship outreach and partner relationships that keep the team funded. You'll also contribute to the cost and manufacturing analysis that our competition reports require. It's a role with real ownership and visible impact: the resources you help secure directly shape what the team can build.
Requirements
Organised, proactive, and comfortable communicating with people outside the team.
Interest in budgeting, procurement, or sponsorship and outreach.
No prior experience required: just initiative.
About the Team
DesignBuildFly at MPSTME is a student-led aerospace design team founded in July 2025 at the Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering, Mumbai. We design, fabricate, and test radio-controlled aircraft to compete in the AIAA Design/Build/Fly competition, working to precise mission requirements against significantly larger and better-funded programmes. In our very first year we placed 20th in Round 1 of the 2025–26 competition, and our current challenge is a banner-towing bush plane built to execute charter-flight ground operations and aerial banner deployment. Our technical philosophy centres on advanced composites carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRP) for primary structures integrated with additive manufacturing to hit exceptional strength-to-weight ratios. Every member receives structured training in flight dynamics, stability analysis, and performance prediction, and we're expanding into CubeSats too. No prior experience is expected from first-years, we teach what you don't yet know. What matters is that you're curious, committed, and want to build real aircraft that fly.