Top Gun is a competition for all engineers and designers to test their skills at designing the most accurate and correctly-structured three dimensional model, in the least amount of time at the COE Annual Conference & TechniFair. The user friendly challenge involves designing a detailed part of a common item that will be revealed when you sign up at the conference.
2025 Award Winners:
1st Ryan Longwell (NIAR, Wichita State)
2nd Gavin Heimerman (NIAR, Wichita State)
3rd Samuel Eshelman (Stanley Black and Decker)
2024 Award Winners:
1st Jeremy Sitz (WSU)
2nd Samuel Eshelman (Stanley Black and Decker)
3rd Hunter Robertson (WSU)
2023 Award Winners:
1st Matthew Rogers (Tesla)
2nd Dane Moorhead (NIAR, Wichita State)
3rd Jeff Gamon (Sierra Nevada)
2022 Award Winners:
(Max time of 45 minutes)
1st Place – Doug Snell, PCC Aerostructures – Perfect Score – 39 min, 22 sec
2nd Place – Jeff Gamon, Sierra Nevada – Perfect Score – 42 min, 48 sec
3rd Place – Jorge Gudino – Lockheed Martin – Perfect Score – 44min, 52 sec
2016 Award Winners
First Place: Steve Roemish, Janicki Industries - Perfect Score
Second Place: Eric Neuville
Third Place: Ben Lucia
Previous Top Gun Winners
2015 - Chris Rempe, Wichita State University
2014 - Samuel Perse, Sharp Tooling Solutions
2013 - Eric Neuville, Pratt & Whitney Canada
2012 - Andrew Kramar, Arnold Engineering
2011 - Josh Jarvis, The Boeing Company
2010 - Kevin Waugh - Lionheart Solutions
2009 (V5) - Daniel Morin, BPR
2008 (V5) - Kevin Morgan, ANXeBuiness Corp.
2007 (V5) - Brian Brown, WichitaState Univesity
2006 (V5) - Nathan Shipley, WichtaState Unversity
2005 (V5) - Roger Joyal, Airbus
Fall 2003 (V4) - Chris Sameck, Freihtliner
Fall 2003 (V5) - DJ Ninagawa, INCS
Spring 2003 (V4) - Changsoo Suh, Hyundai Motors
Spring 2003 (V5) - Janelle Beczak, Cessna Arcraft
Fall 2002 (V4) - Dave Baldwin, Northwest CA Sevies
Fall 2002 (V5) - Ralph Templin, Delphi Autoote
Spring 2002 (V4) - Junya Uramoto, INCS
Spring 2002 (V5) - Jim Strawn, Cessna Aircraft
Fall 2001(V5) - Jang Ju Hyun, Korea Aerospace
Spring 2001 (V4) - Roger Joyal, The Boeing Cmpay
Spring 2001 (V5) - Rick Van Wetten, Siemensanaa
Fall 2000 - Dave Baldwin, Northwest CAD Serce
Fall 2000 - Gary Fisher, Black & Decker
Spring 2000 - Jeff Roark, Johnson Controls
Fall 1999 - Roger Joyal, Boeing MilitaryDiviin
Fall 1999 - Rob Dunn, Bombardier deHaviland
Spring 1999 - Matthew Hillyer, TaylorMahines
Fall 1998 - Jim Strawn, Cessna ircrat
Spring 1998 - Ivan Kaszycki, Ber Ciate Systems, Inc.
Fall 1997 - Todd Doyle, AlliedSgna
Spring 1997 - Andrew Ray, DECS
Fall 1996 - Douglas Vargo, Autoliv