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Important to note, the WARR team doesn't receive any funding or direct support from the university - not even professors or Ph.D's. This is a 100% student crea
by atroyn 9y ago
Important to note, the WARR team doesn't receive any funding or direct support from the university - not even professors or Ph.D's.
This is a 100% student created and run initiative
- Radim 9y agoMakes winning so much sweeter: no need to concede bullshit "acknowledgements" to absent profs and grant agencies and supervisors who sit the entire project out, only to inject themselves into the final credits and collect the post-victory interviews. Standard academic practice. Great job, students!
- cma 9y agoWhy wouldn't a grant agency get acknowledgements if they provided funding? If you look at the winning pod, it is covered with logos of sponsors as acknowledgement.
- jldugger 9y agoIt's one thing to have a line in a paper saying 'this research was funded in part by the NSF' and another thing entirely to have people talking to the media about said work.
- mc32 9y agoIt's not all that different from accelerators partially funding startups and associating themselves with the successes as long,as they want. I think it's arguable earned.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoIs WARR the cart in the image? Why does it have all those logos?
- dna_polymerase 9y agoThose are their sponsors. So I don't know if "no funding" is right. Also they directly list TUM (TU Munich) as sponsor. http://hyperloop.warr.de/#sec_sponsor http://hyperloop.warr.de/#sec_sponsor
- nawgszy 9y agoI don't think that it's supposed to be read "no funding in general and no direct support from the university", but instead "the university offered them no funding or direct support"
- achamayou 9y agoThe logos are those of sponsors, not of the university ;)
- bluejekyll 9y agoIf that is the WARR vehicle, the GP doesn't mention not getting sponsors, just that the University didn't directly support it. Though, I wonder where they built this and worked on it. My guess would be that they had lab space provided by the school.
- turbinerneiter 9y agoThere is lab space provided by university (we find it very weird that you call it school). The main point is that the WARR teams (Hyperloop, space elevator, deep space concepts, rockets and satellites [I'm in the sat group]) are student teams. Some Ph.D students are involved, too, but the point is that we decide what we do. The teamleader is a student. The ideas are from the students. The University, in the form of the chairs (Astronautics and Propulsion) are partners and friends, but we are in charge of what we do. WARR is actually older than the Universities Astronautics chair. (btw, high to all WARRians on hackernews)
- hsod 9y agoIn America, "school" is a generic term for any kind of educational institution
- achamayou 9y agoAre you sure? TUM is listed next to Airbus under "Main Sponsors".
- atroyn 9y agoI'm sure. They are officially incorporated under the umbrella WARR organization which also has the rocketry and satellite student projects of the TUM, but doesn't receive any funding either. They basically have financial compliance oversight and that's it.
- qwefadf 9y agoBased on the number of logos on the vehicle. I'm sure they have sponsors.
- atroyn 9y agoThe WARR team went out and got sponsorship on their own, not through the university.