June 6 – 9: ME students competing at Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge

A team of mechanical engineering students traveled to New York this week with their senior design project, Lynx Motorsports Baja Racer, to compete in the Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge 2013.

The competition is hosted by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and runs from June 6 through June 9.

The car, which was designed and built by the team of students based on guidelines and specifications for this specific competition, is engineered to navigate obstacles and complete different technical feats.

The judging of the competition has several categories of varying weights. The first is the design report and the second is the cost report; 85 points are available for these two categories. The next events are dynamics events for the vehicle—acceleration, hill climb, maneuverability and endurance—and total 700 possible points. The vehicle has been designed knowing the hardest and most heavily weighted section of the competition is the endurance race.  Less than 50 percent of the entering vehicles will complete this race, as it is very demanding and hard on the car.

Team members include Hussain Alabdulmohsin, Jeff Blum, Thomas Caranese, Joseph Gardner, Byron Gray, Jon Le, Sean McDonough, Raymond Packingham and Fraser Sanderson. They are hopeful for a top-ten finish against more than 120 teams from all around the world.

Learn more at ucdlynxmotorsports.com.

Good luck!