BAJA SAE : MIND BLOWING COMPETITION FOR YOUNG ENGINEERS
The goal in Baja SAE racing is to design, build and race
off-road vehicles that can withstand the harshest elements of rough environment
and the students can learn to apply their theoretical knowledge practically.
The vehicles used in Baja SAE racing are often similar in appearance to the
buggies. Before 2007, the events were called "Mini Baja" which was
changed latter to Baja SAE. Each year as many as 141 Baja cars are entered in
the Baja SAE events across the US and around the world where events are held
including India, South Africa and Korea and many other countries. All cars must be designed according to SAE's
rules, and pass SAE's technical inspection and judging. A car is not allowed to
race until all safety inspections are passed.
Small engine manufacturer Briggs & Stratton (a company) sponsors
Baja SAE teams by providing the SAE sanctioned engine free of charge, at a
replacement rate of one engine for every two years in competition.
There are multiple dynamic events in the competition,
usually four per event. The dynamic events include a single four-hour endurance
race, hill climbs, chain pulls, maneuverability events, rock crawls, and
suspension & traction events. At one
of the western SAE sanction events, (formally the America) the car had to be
able to float and propel itself on water under its own power. This was changed for
the 2012 competition because of safety issues.
Static events, such as written reports, presentations and
design evaluations have to be cleared by participating teams. This is when the
teams are judged on ergonomics, functionality, and productibility of their cars,
experience and talent, ensuring that the final placement of the team does not
rest solely on the vehicle's performance but rather on a combination of static
and dynamic events and their hard work too. Required reports contain the details
of the engineering and design process that was used in developing each system
of the team’s vehicle, supported with sound engineering principles. Also, a
cost report that provides all the background information necessary to verify
the vehicle’s actual cost is used to rate the most economically feasible for
production and if good can be further used in production. These reports are
submitted weeks in advance of each event, where the presentations and design
evaluations are given on site in the presence of SAE design judges along with
the rules and the other official updates.
The Baja SAE Competition was started at the University of
South Carolina in 1976, under the supervision of Dr. J. F. Stevens. Since that
time, the competition has grown to become a premier engineering design series
for university teams and one of the most important competitions for engineering
students.
Baja SAE is an intercollegiate engineering design
competition for undergraduate and graduate engineering students to bring out
innovation in them and relate them with the real world engineering. The object
of the competition is to simulate real-world engineering design projects and
their related challenges moving out of just bookish knowledge. Each team is
competing to have its design accepted for manufacture by a repeated company. The
students must function as a team to design, build, test, promote and complete a
vehicle within the limits of the rules, also to generate financial support for
their project and manage their educational priorities and obviously to win or
qualify.
Each team's goal is to design and build a prototype of a
rugged, single seat, off-road vehicle intended for sale to the non-professional
weekend off-road enthusiast and to meet all the requirements of the competitions.
The vehicle must be safe, easily transported,
easily maintained and easy to drive. It should be able to negotiate rough
terrain without damage and remain as strong as possible. In the past there have been as many as seven
sanctioned events which were reduced to three in 2010. A Baja SAE competition
event consists of three to four days.
Recently in India
Virtual BAJA was held be at Sri Venkateshawra College of Engineering, Bangalore
on
26th & 27th July 2013. The slot details were declared.
Here is the link from
which the results SAE BAJA virtual faceoff can be seen.
Resutls virtual round baja sae -2013
Best of luck to the teams which qualified for virtual round and work hard, u have a long way to go...!!!
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