MAE 4250 - FSAE Automotive Design Project

Fall, spring. 3-4 credits, variable.

Enrollment limited to: engineering juniors and seniors or permission of instructor. Fulfills Senior Design requirement if M.E. seniors enroll in corresponding section of MAE 4291. Three credits for team members, 4 for team leaders.

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Project course to research, design, build, develop, and compete with a Formula SAE car for intercollegiate competition. Students work in interdisciplinary teams using concurrent engineering and systems engineering principles applied to complex mechanical, electromechanical, and electronic systems.

Outcome 1: Students will have learned and be able to apply mathematical, engineering, and communication skills and tools. Be able to solve problems, and function in a professional environment. Be able to learn how to learn information not covered in formal courses one has taken.

Outcome 2: Be able to design vehicles that will win the Formula SAE competition. This requires an engineering systems view: consider the customers, requirements, functions, structure and implementation. To learn how to maximize the points the team will win in the competition: trading off cost, time, technology, training, etc.

Outcome 3: Developed an enjoyment of engineering and the team.

Outcome 4: Have created conditions for future teams to be able to win via learning how to utilize engineering research and knowledge engineering.