{"id":315,"date":"2014-02-06T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T12:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/?p=315"},"modified":"2023-02-22T20:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T20:25:34","slug":"student-competitions-formula-sae-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/2014\/02\/06\/student-competitions-formula-sae-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Competitions: Formula SAE Car"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"DSC_0533a.jpg\"<\/a>When it comes to auto racing, Lincoln, Nebraska, may not have the same cachet and name recognition as Indianapolis, Laguna Seca or Le Mans, but in June 2013, it became a center of automotive excellence when CSUN\u2019s team joined 79 others there from around the world to compete in the 2013 Formula SAE Car competition.<\/a><\/p>\n

The concept behind the Formula SAE competition, which is sponsored by SAE International (formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers), is that a fictional manufacturing company has contracted with a design team to develop a small Formula-style race car. Each student team designs, builds and tests a prototype based on specific rules. Cars are evaluated on static and dynamic events.<\/p>\n

In the static events, CSUN\u2019s 22-member team did exceptionally well, ranking second overall in terms of cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team did a good job of writing their report and presenting it,\u201d says Stewart Prince, professor of mechanical engineering, who advises the team. \u201cAnd in terms of performance, the car they brought was very cost-effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

In dynamic events, the CSUN team ranked ninth in fuel economy and 15th overall in terms of endurance, which measures how far the car can go before it breaks. The team\u2019s overall ranking for the competition was 17, in the top 20%.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe objective in the students\u2019 minds is to win, but in reality it\u2019s to do as well as we can,\u201d Prince says. \u201cWe\u2019re competing against teams from abroad that have a lot of money. We have to look at our student body and the resources we have and figure out how to maximize the points of the competition, so we focus on static events and presentations.\u201d Some teams, he says, neglect the static events but produce super high-performance vehicles\u2014an approach that doesn\u2019t work at CSUN, where money and facilities are limited. \u201cSo we make a relatively inexpensive but high-performance car and focus on the static events,\u201d he explains. \u201cThat\u2019s our focus: balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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