Students in the College of Engineering built UNL’s first Formula SAE car this summer and played host to a national competition.
Formula SAE is a student design competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE, also known as SAE International). The competition was started in 1978 and was originally called SAE Mini Indy.
This is also the first of five years UNL will host a national Formula SAE competition. The June 20-23 event, which drew more than 1,000 participants from 81 registered teams nationwide.
SAE International announced in February the decision to relocate its Formula SAE competition from Fontana, California to Lincoln, Neb. in 2012.
The decision to change venue was made in part because the Lincoln Airpark offers excellent space and facility features providing better team support and accommodation for future growth.
In recent conversation with the University of Nebraska’s (UNL) newly-formed Formula SAE team when asking why they picked now to start a team, team captain TiLong K Nguyen said, “One of the most important reasons Formula was started here at UNL was to create a student organization that simulates real world situations. Meeting deadlines, working with other engineers and being able to see the teams creation at work and being able to show your work to the rest of the world by competing with other schools.”
Nguyen, a UNL College of Engineering student in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, led a team of engineers from a variety of disciplines, as well as non-engineers, in creating Nebraska's entry.
Learn more about their work at:
http://go.unl.edu/formulasae
http://huskermotorsports.com
https://www.facebook.com/HMSFormulaSAE
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/formulasae