About Penn State Formula Sae
Penn State Formula SAE is a student run design team with the task of designing and prototyping a formula style racecar for the annual Formula SAE competition. At this competition, held at Michigan International Speedway, teams from all over the world are judged in both static and dynamic events including: cost of production, ergonomics, an investment presentation, acceleration, autocross time, and a grueling endurance race. The competition provides students with an opportunity to apply their engineering, organization, and communication skills in an industry-like setting.
Latest News
- Chassis has been started.
- Suspension has been designed.
- New website has been updated.
- Homecoming Parade.
- Programming the dash board and the fan controller.
- Structure equivalency.
- Roll Hoops have been placed.
- Frame Welding Has started.
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October 2009
November 2009
Information:
Penn State Formula SAE is privileged to have the resources of Carson Baird and The Learning Factory (Penn State’s undergraduate machine shop).
The shop includes: 3 Bridgeport Manual Mills 2 South Bend lathes with DRO Bridgeport Torque-Cut 22 CNC Mill OMAX Waterjet Surface grinder MIG and TIG welders FDM and LOM rapid prototype machine. In addition to the machine shop, there is an attached design studio with ten workstations equipped with Pro-Engineer, Solidworks, MasterCam, Matlab, and Virtual 4-Stroke. The team also keeps their chassis dynamometer and materials at this facility.
For testing:
The team has use of The Pennsylvania Transportation Institute’s (PTI) test track and facility. This facility includes a large skidpad open 24 hours a day. The team uses the 1-mile oval for high speed stability testing