Eloa Guillotin and Hugo Tarlé (S2020) have received the Mayoux-Dauriac Award from the ISAE-SUPAERO ENSICA Alumni Association
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Eloa Guillotin and Hugo Tarlé (S2020) have received the Mayoux-Dauriac Award from the ISAE-SUPAERO ENSICA Alumni Association. This prize recognizes engineering students in the final year of the ISAE-SUPAERO engineering course for their practical achievements during their studies and the various internships carried out, in keeping with the wishes of Maurice Mayoux (S 1924).
In his will, Maurice Mayoux – SUPAERO 1924 (ARTS & MÉTIERS Cluny 1920), who died on September 4th, 1997, expressed his desire that, with the income from his assets left to the Société des Ingénieurs Arts et Métiers (Arts et Métiers Engineers Society), French language prizes be awarded to Arts et Métiers students and mechanics prizes to SUPAERO students, joining the name of his wife, Jeanne Dauriac, to the award.
“The annual allocation of an Award reserved to students in their last year of studies, whatever their specialty, but chosen for their overall understanding of General Mathematics and their application in “practical” constructions, constructions that should be considered for all of their qualities: principle, simplicity, efficacy, probable feasibility, and as low a cost price possible.”
The SUPAERO Association, now called ISAE SUPAERO ENSICA Alumni, therefore decided to create the Mayoux-Dauriac Aeronautic Award recognizing the use of the knowledge acquired at the School in the exercise of one of the various facets of the engineering profession, their achievements (projects) being judged for their utility to industry (or services) and presenting a positive economic balance. Two prizes were awarded in 2020!
The €9,000 First Prize for 2020 went to Eloa Guillotin and Hugo Tarlé for their Beyond Aerospace Project – Survey of light delivery for space: prospective analysis of small launchers.
Eloa and Hugo form a real partnership. They are both ISAE-SUPAERO Engineers (S2020) and followed the same educational career at École Polytechnique, HEC Paris and the University of California, Berkeley (USA). They have a passion for space and more particularly for launchers. They have also been motivated by entrepreneurship ever since they met in their first year. At the head of the school’s entrepreneurship association, they organized the first European startup week-end on space in partnership with Airbus Defence and Space, CNES and ESA.
During their engineering studies they created Attom together, a company that develops instant recharging products for Smartphones. Their project was awarded two notable entrepreneurial distinctions in Toulouse. Their studies then taught them the basics of creating a technology company. After earning their X-HEC Entrepreneurs Masters from HEC Paris, and after spending a semester at the University of California, Berkeley, they founded Beyond Aerospace, a responsive launch service dedicated to small satellites.
Eloa has a long-term vision of the goals to be met and her natural organization enables her to set precise, realistic milestones for the next steps to be taken. Her ambition and her good managerial cheer naturally made her the CEO of Beyond Aerospace. Hugo has fabulous technical skills, notably in fluid mechanics and data science. A real do-it-yourselfer, he built a H2O2/Ethanol bi-liquid engine, solid-propulsion boosters and experimental rockets in his back yard. His precision and his thoroughness have made him the CTO of Beyond Aerospace.
Their company fits into an economic system that they learned about during their Master’s thesis supervised by Sandy Tirtey, Director of Launches at Rocket Lab – the first and only operational commercial micro-launcher in the world to date. Their real industrial and economic interest in the micro-launcher market is the product of their curiosity and their passion for space and technological entrepreneurship based on their technical experimentation. They have put this into practice with Beyond Aerospace and all of their achievements have earned them this award, the result of their excellence.