Student Bio
Driven by the desire to have an impact on the society and by the possibility to work on things no one had before, Samuel Quenneville started his undergraduate education in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke. Quickly, he developed a passion for the aeronautic and aerospace fields which led him to joined the VAMUdeS as soon as his first semester began. VAMUdeS is the university UAV’s student group in which he became the lead of the mechanical team after his first year in it. This team gave him the opportunity to design, test and operate UAVs. During his four years in this group, between 2016 and 2020, his team participated to three editions of the Canadian competition USC and to three editions of the American competition AUVSI SUAS, winning two of them.
During the last two year of Samuel’s undergraduate studies he had the chance to work with a team on the design, manufacturing, and testing of a nano satellite as his Major Design Project. His group’s project, QMSat, aims to launch in 2022 a quantum magnetometer in space as part of the Canadian Space Agency CubeSat Initiative.
In the summer 2020, Samuel joined the Createk lab for his last internship. This internship was the occasion to get him familiarized and to start working on what will become his Master’s research project in January 2021. Under the supervision of Professor David Rancourt, Samuel will continue to work on the development and proof of concept of a new VTOL design: the EPR2. This concept uses an unmanned plane following circular paths to create a high efficiency VTOL in hover mode.