Three groups of University of Texas at Dallas engineering students took on a corporate-backed challenge: Design and build a low-cost, portable system for sponsor Lockheed Martin Corp. that can disable a “hostile” drone. The third group, Team Takedown, won the challenge with its custom drone, which sported a cannon that shoots spring-loaded projectiles that cast a net to capture an enemy drone. The program sometimes provides challenges in which a few teams work separately on the same problem for a sponsor. Dr. Robert Hart, associate professor of practice in mechanical engineering and UTDesign mechanical engineering faculty director, said the capstone projects teach students that there can be multiple solutions to a problem. Be a UTDesign Sponsor UTDesign helps companies expand their resources by partnering with computer science and engineering students at UT Dallas.