HYPERLOOP POD COMPETITION I TEAM BIOS

COMPETING TEAMS
BADGERLOOP
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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The Badgerloop team at UW-Madison is a committed force in the revolution of transportation. Our
pod's scalability and ability to reach the acceleration phase after the initial pusher is what we take the
most pride in. In order to accomplish such a task, our student organization relies on diverse membership
from a variety of majors across the STEM and Business fields. Our primary goal is to produce a
successful, fail-safe, passenger-friendly Hyperloop pod prototype. Beyond just the competition aspect,
Badgerloop is proud to collaborate and participate with premier researchers all over the globe, laying
the foundation for the future of transportation.

BAYOU BENGALS
Louisiana State University
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Bayou Bengals is a team comprised of over 20 students and advisors of various backgrounds who joined
together toward a common goal. Our prototype pod design is 12 feet long, weighs 1,000 lbs, and should
reach speeds upwards of 150 mph. This is done by using an on-board propulsion system unlike most
designs, with a motorcycle drive system custom fit to an electric engine. After the coast phase, a three
brake system that utilizes the magnetic hover engines eddy current, electric motor resistance, and
friction brakes will initiate. The outer shell is comprised of carbon fiber molding for optimal aerodynamic
performance.

bLOOP
University of California, Berkeley
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The Berkeley Hyperloop pod is designed to meet industry standards of safety and transport real people
comfortably at high speeds. A fully pressurized cabin keeps passengers breathing while in the vacuum of
the Hyperloop, and a passive magnetic levitation system allows for a smooth ride even with a 550lb
payload. Contactless magnetic braking systems ensure that the bLoop pod can come to a stop in the
event of an emergency, giving passengers the confidence to travel like never before.

CARNEGIE MELLON HYPERLOOP

Carnegie Mellon University
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Imagine travelling from New York to Pittsburgh in just 30 minutes! This is the vision of Carnegie Mellon
Hyperloop. We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers, designers and business hustlers who have
come together to create the future of high-speed mass transportation. The goal is to disrupt the
transportation industry. Get ready to experience the smoothest ride ever on our unique pod with the
state-of-the-art levitation, bi-module stability system, and a robust magnetic braking system. Fasten
your seatbelts!! The journey begins soon.
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DELFT HYPERLOOP
Delft University of Technology
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The Delft Hyperloop vehicle is the embodiment of our vision of fast, efficient and cost-effective
transportation. It has a uniquely integrated levitation, stabilization and braking system based on
permanent magnets. This results in a vehicle that weighs 149 kg [329 lbs] and uses as little power as a
light bulb. The redundant batter and fail-safe braking system make it safe and reliable, all tested on two
one-of-a-kind test set-ups. Now the time has come for you to witness our vision on the future of
transportation. Join us in this journey, in revolutionizing transportation at the speed of sound.

GATORLOOP
University of Florida
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Founded at the University of Florida, the Gatorloop team consists of undergraduate and graduate level
engineering students (and one business student!) focusing on different branches of the industry. This
diversity solidifies our team because with a project as involved as the Hyperloop, there's always going to
be an opportunity to utilize a member's skillset. Even though we are engineering students with different
academic objectives, we all have one goal in common: to create the most functional, effective and
revolutionary Hyperloop pod system.

HYPERLOOP AT VIRGINIA TECH

Virginia Tech
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Hyperloop at Virginia Tech was founded in September 2015 after the announcement of the SpaceX
Hyperloop Pod Competition. Comprised solely of undergraduate students from multiple engineering
disciplines, the team dedicates countless hours of work to bring the concept of Hyperloop to fruition.
With a 4th place finish at Design Weekend in January 2016, the team continues to make groundbreaking
developments and strives to embody Virginia Tech's commitment to Invent the Future through a hands-
on, minds-on approach. Considering the innovators behind its creation, the Vhyper will certainly be a
force to be reckoned with.

HYPERLOOP AT USC
University of Southern California
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Hyperloop at USC, the University of Southern California's Hyperloop design team, has one primary goal:
speed. We are combining the electric vehicle industry's highest performance propulsion and power
products with a unique wheeled vehicle architecture that maximizes our Pod's acceleration, top speed,
and braking capability. We plan to use Competition I to qualify our Pod's state machine, navigation
mechanisms, controls systems, and pneumatics systems for use in high speed test runs scheduled for
Competition II, where full speed tests will qualify our propulsion system for full speed and win the
fastest transit time category.
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HYPERLOOP UC
University of Cincinnati
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Hyperloop has sparked a technological revolution since its inception. Hyperloop UC is proud to be a part
of that revolution. What started off as a small group of students has transformed into a 60 member
strong team. Hyperloop UC has been on the forefront of this great adventure. Our team was the first to
demonstrate magnetic levitation for the Hyperloop. Hyperloop UC features a scalable design with a pod
that does not compromise on performance. A light-weight structure, magnetic levitation and low-
pressure operation helps achieve high speeds. WE ENGINEER BETTER is not just our motto but our
creed.

HYPERLIFT
St. Johns High School
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HyperLift is an independent entity from St. John School in Houston, Texas. We are the youngest and
smallest team made up of six high school students striving to build the fastest, safest and most efficient
prototype pod. Throughout our design process, we have focused on modularity, material efficiency, and
scalability, which are key to full-scale feasibility. We are using air bearings to levitate our pod and a dual
stage (magnetic and contact) braking system with integrated redundancy to ensure safety. We each
bring unique skillsets and believe that together we can leave a positive impact on our future.

HYPERXITE
University of California, Irvine
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HyperXite is a dedicated team of more than forty undergraduate engineering students from the
University of California, Irvine working to design and manufacture a prototype Hyperloop pod. We
received a Design Excellence award and placed 5th for overall concept quality at Design Weekend,
making us the only top five team to implement an air-based levitation system. With the help of our
industry sponsors, we have been able to push the boundaries of air-levitation technology and gain a
glimpse into the future of high speed, mass transportation. More information can be found at
HyperXite.com or on social media @UCI_HyperXite.

ILLINI HYPERLOOP
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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Illini Hyperloop is a group of undergraduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
who are participating in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. We are comprised of a Senior Design
Team and a Registered Student Organization. The Senior Design Team is a group of seniors that have
chosen the Hyperloop concept as their Senior Design Project, and the Registered Student Organization is
a student-run club, open to the entire student body and any area of study. Together we make a strong
team, representative of the countless brilliant scholars at the University of Illinois.
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KEIO ALPHA
Keio University
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Keio Alpha is formed by a group graduate students in Keio University, Japan. The team is the only one
that built a micro-pod, which is the minimum viable prototype of a Hyperloop pod. The pod is the size of
a travel luggage bag and is designed to be easy to transport, modify and replace for continuous research
and development. The pod has the unique features of an active magnetic levitation system, compact
rotary magnetic brake-levitation system and responsive graphic user interface. The pod is designed
based on a systems engineering approach to verify and validate the design and manufacturing of our
pod.

LEHIGH HYPERLOOP
Lehigh University
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Lehigh's Hyperloop team is filled with some of the most passionate, hard-working, and determined
undergraduate students on Lehigh's Campus. The team consists of students from the College of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, the College of Business and Economics, and the College of Arts and
Sciences at Lehigh. Working together, the team has progressed extraordinarily over the last year,
beginning with a design and tirelessly working to bring it to life. The team could not be more thankful for
the opportunity SpaceX has given them to work on a truly revolutionary piece of technology.

MIT HYPERLOOP
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Our team has focused on designing and building a safe, scalable, and feasible pod for this competition.
We focused on subsystems that could scale up to a full Hyperloop with minimal changes. For instance,
we use efficient magnetic levitation using permanent magnets, and designed a fail-safe braking system
that can be used as an emergency braking system on a full-scale Hyperloop. We have learned a lot, and
hope that we have contributed in a meaningful way to making the Hyperloop a reality.

NYU HYPERLOOP
New York University
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The NYU Hyperloop team is focused on the potential for Hyperloop systems to revolutionize freight
transportation. We believe Hyperloop systems would be highly effective integrated within intermodal
freight transportation networks. By optimizing for freight transportation, initial Hyperloop concepts
reduce barriers to entry while creating impactful solutions to the needs for clean, efficient
transportation systems. The flat-bed configuration for the pod maximizes capacity and modularity for
different container types. A wheel supported design gives us a simple platform to begin our
development of Hyperloop pod systems. Our team’s goal is to produce scalable concepts for the future
of Hyperloop freight transportation.
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OPENLOOP
Northeastern, Memorial University, Princeton, Cornell, Harvey Mudd College, and the University of
Michigan
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OpenLoop is a six school alliance dedicated to making the Hyperloop concept a reality. Our team
includes students from Northeastern, Memorial University, Princeton, Cornell, Harvey Mudd College,
and the University of Michigan with interests ranging from engineering to finance. The OpenLoop pod
utilizes a pneumatic based levitation system similar to the Hyperloop Alpha design. The pod is designed
to reach speeds of up to 200 mph and has an embedded control system that utilizes real time telemetry
to adjust its flight profile. We aim to prove the viability of air based levitation for use in commercial scale
Hyperloop systems.

PURDUE HYPERLOOP DESIGN TEAM

Purdue University
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The Purdue Hyperloop Design Team is an enthusiastic and innovative group of over 30 undergraduate
and graduate students from seven different majors and six nationalities. For the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod
Competition I, the Purdue team designed and built a pod with a carbon fiber structure, passive magnetic
levitation, and magnetic brakes. The pod’s design reflects a focus on creating a simple, functional, and
safe system that can be extensible to a larger, faster setting. Whereas traditional Boilermakers
fashioned the steam engines of times past, Purdue’s team hopes to push modern transportation one
brick higher.

rLOOP
Reddit
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rLoop is a globally distributed, open source, crowdsourced, multi-disciplinary team. Our origins can be
traced to a post on the SpaceX subreddit suggesting the community organize a team for the Hyperloop
Competition. Since then, more than 400 people from over 15 countries have rallied behind this
collaborative design concept. rLoop is a united collective devoted to a morally praiseworthy goal. Our
open source nature inspires some informality. We're not a stuffy team of old engineers - we're the
crowd organization of the future, and we like to have fun while living the dream of creating that better
world.

TAMU HYPERLOOP
Texas A&M University
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The TAMU Hyperloop pod is characterized by its light weight and simplistic approach. A novel air bearing
design with on board compressed air tanks provides levitation heights in the order of millimeters. A
double wishbone suspension will aid in mitigating vibrations. Braking will be achieved via hydraulic
actuation. Fail safe mechanisms have been introduced into every subsystem.
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TEAM CODEX
Oral Roberts University
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Team Codex originally began as a senior project in 2015 with 7 members from Oral Roberts University.
They made news as the only team from Oklahoma to pass through Design Weekend. Since then, Team
Codex has grown to have 31 members. After the seniors who began the project in 2015 graduated, the
project was handed over to a new set of students, with the original members still consulting. These new
students have been highly motivated and have worked many thousands of hours to make the pod ready
to go by the competition date.

TEAM HYPERLYNX
University of Colorado Denver
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Team Hyperlynx began as a Senior Design project for mechanical engineering students. The Juniors are
now carrying the torch. The current team is composed of volunteers who balance full time class
schedules and full time jobs when not working on the Hyperloop pod. As a team, they represent the
diversity of the University of Colorado Denver by being comprised of not only mechanical, electrical, and
non-engineering students, but also of men and women, multiple races and religions, and young and old;
all while embodying the Denver culture of being relaxed, friendly lovers of the outdoors and good craft
beer.

UMDLOOP
University of Maryland
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UMDLoop is a highly motivated group of 70 students with backgrounds in engineering, physics,
computer science, and business. Across six sub-teams, UMDLoop has worked relentlessly to design, test,
and build Prometheus, their Hyperloop pod. Prometheus features a magnetic-levitation suspension
system coupled with passive control to keep itself centered on the I-beam track. In addition, the
"chainmail" braking system with an alternating array of Neodymium magnets is used to stop
Prometheus safely and effectively. Prometheus was assembled almost entirely in-house at the
University of Maryland where all electronic and pneumatic components were vacuum tested, and
roughly 40% of Prometheus was fabricated.

UWASHINGTON HYPERLOOP
University of Washington
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The University of Washington Hyperloop team is comprised of nearly 40 diverse members, each with
unique skill sets, and backgrounds. Each of our members are united by a common ambition to improve
our current prototype, and usher in a new era of high-speed, rapid transportation. Representing the
Pacific Northwest (PNW), we are prepared to take our award winning concept to the next level as we
race against the best teams. #SafetyFirst
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VICHYPER
RMIT Australia
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VicHyper is an interdisciplinary team of students powered by RMIT University in Australia that are
striving to advance Hyperloop technology. The VicHyper prototype will be showcasing their fault
tolerant braking and autonomous control systems which provide a high level of safety within the tube.

WARR HYPERLOOP
Technical University of Munich
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WARR Hyperloop is a 35 people multi-disciplinary and international team from the Technical University
of Munich. Their Pod levitates using permanent magnets and is safely decelerated by the use of Eddy
Current and Friction Brakes. As one of the few teams in the competition that uses a compressor, the
team keeps close to Elon Musk’s original concept. Their drag reduction system draws and compresses
the air from the front and passes it to the rear of the pod. WARR Hyperloop’s goal is to win the
competition by building a safe, realistic and scalable version of the Hyperloop for future operation.

WATERLOOP
University of Waterloo
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Waterloop is a team of ambitious students from all faculties of the University of Waterloo who have
been researching and developing a half-scale prototype Hyperloop pod since September 2015 to
compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. The team is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada’s
largest high-tech innovation hub, and is the only Canadian pod team invited to Competition I. We are
very proud to be developing improved transit infrastructure which can bring people together, link
economies, and reduce traffic, energy use, and emissions through the demonstration of a functional
Hyperloop prototype.

EXHIBITING TEAMS (NON-COMPETING)

DREXEL HYPERLOOP
Drexel University
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GUADALOOP
University of Texas, Austin
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HORNET HYPERLOOP
Sacramento State University
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HYPERFALCOS
University of Colorado Colorado Springs + United States Air Force Academy + Thomas MacLaren
School-Colorado Springs
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MERCURY THREE
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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NOVA HYPERLOOP
Cairo University
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RYERSON HYPERLOOP
Ryerson University
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