Engineering Chapel Hill’s most innovative aerial systems.
Where precision, discipline, and creativity take flight.
Carolina Skylab is UNC Chapel Hill’s premier aerospace engineering organization. We are a community of innovators, makers, and engineers redefining flight through hands-on design.
We plan to empower Carolina's brightest engineering talents to build next-gen drones, planes, and custom-designed rockets that push the limits of what students can achieve.
Our guiding principle is simple: build fast, test fearlessly & innovate relentlessly. Again, and again.
At Carolina Skylab, we welcome aspiring engineers of every background who share one common trait: unabating dedication. Our culture values effort, curiosity, and persistence above credentials, creating a space where anyone willing to learn and build can contribute to something extraordinary.
Skylab represents the pinnacle of student-led engineering at UNC. Here, students push the boundaries of design and innovation through precision craftsmanship, bold experimentation, and rigorous teamwork. What begins as an idea on the drawing board becomes an elite engineering achievement that is built not solely by design, but by commitment and grit.