The EESC-USP Aerodesign Team was established in 1998 by students of the course in mechanical engineering with emphasis on aircraft of the Escola de Engenharia de Sao Carlos (Engineering School of Sao Carlos). However, the students have been working on the project since August 1997. Initially, the goal was to disseminate the competition in Brazil, seeking to attract the interest of other schools, trying to make a similar competition to the United States at national level. Thus in October 1998 the work of the team was disclosed in Fealtec (Fair of High Technology), an event that meets annually in Sao Carlos-SP companies in the area of technology and where the first aircraft of the team was on display and gave demonstrations of flight.

Another important obligation of the team was the participation in the SAE International Congress in Sao Paulo in November 1998, where a technical presentation of the project was made. This presentation took place in the "Night of Students" – a traditional event that brings together high work performed by students engineering in the area of mobility – thus disseminating the competition for professionals in the area and attracting potential sponsors for the future event. After this presentation, the team had the extra-official confirmation, which was later confirmed, of a national championship of Aerodesign.

Even though the competition was confirmed, the team did not give in the goal of the dissemination, participating even further in the Formula 1 Workshop (with the theme: The borders of the Automobile Technology) held in April 1999 in Sao Paulo.

From that point on, the team was involved in the design and construction of a new aircraft to participate in the first national competition to be held in August 1999 in Sao Jose dos Campos - SP. The team has been established in an area within the University itself where lies the laboratory and room for microcomputers. Currently the team has the support of the EESC, particularly the LAE (Laboratory of Aircraft), which provides all the technical support necessary for the development of our projects, having a high level of faculty advisors, vast specialist literature, agreement with the main libraries of the country, CAD, structural analysis, dynamic and aerodynamic software and having a wind tunnel for testing.

Due to teamwork, dedicated to the development and materialization of the projects, students of the Engineering School of Sao Carlos have the opportunity to learn through the practical application of the theory given in the classroom. Also making acquaintance with the techniques of aviation construction, exercising disciplines which usually are not part of the academic curricula and which reveal to be valuable to the professional engineer: leadership, planning, ability to sell ideas and projects.