{"id":10744,"date":"2025-10-12T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/mbe-group\/?page_id=10744"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:50:21","slug":"undergraduate-research-highlight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/mbe-group\/undergraduate-research-highlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Research Highlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>14 Years Ago, a Senior Design Team Soared to New Heights<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourteen years ago, a senior design team was on the cutting edge of innovation. Guided by Professor Zhang, they unveiled a groundbreaking GPS-guided, remote-controlled, solar-powered model airplane. The aircraft featured advanced functionalities such as solar-powered flight, self-homing capabilities, and autonomous cruising\u2014technologies that were well ahead of their time, outpacing today&#8217;s drones by over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Plane Soars with Solar Power\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ga4sBTvmxpU?start=68&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/content\/engineering-students-tackle-solar-powered-flight-challenges\">https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/content\/engineering-students-tackle-solar-powered-flight-challenges<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\">14 Years Ago, a Senior Design Team Soared to New Heights Fourteen years ago, a senior design team was on the cutting edge of innovation. Guided by Professor Zhang, they unveiled a groundbreaking GPS-guided, remote-controlled, solar-powered model airplane. The aircraft featured advanced functionalities such as solar-powered flight, self-homing capabilities, and autonomous cruising\u2014technologies that were well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10744","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/mbe-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/mbe-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/mbe-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/mbe-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/mbe-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/mbe-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/mbe-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}