The University Of Tennessee Society Of Automotive Engineers is a participant in the SAE student design competition SAE Baja.

 A Baja buggy is an all terrain vehicle built to perform in challenging off-road racing series against 125 other SAE chapters located across the country and around the world.

Teams must design and build a vehicle that will maximize performance, durability, and safety, while minimizing the cost to produce the vehicle.  

Teams compete not only to have the fastest and most agile vehicle, but to also have their design accepted by a manufacturer (i.e. competition judges).

The vehicle design, fabrication, and race process is meant to expose students to design considerations including suspension dynamics, user ergonomics, maintainability, project management skills, fundraising, and actual race driving and pit crew experience, among other skills.

The valuable skills students obtain by participating in this project can be transferred directly to the workplace or professional setting.

 

Society of Automotive Engineers

Mechanical, Aerospace and
Biomedical Engineering Dept.
1512 Middle Drive
414 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
Phone: (865) 974-5115
Email: dki@utk.edu