UP Team Profile and Goals
From the previous pages, you've learned the general details of the Formula SAE competition. This is the actual project. This is a team dealing with the multitude of tasks and problems associated with any project of this size. This is what it looks like as it all comes together.
The team
Dan cutting tubing for the frame
- The University of Portland is a private ABET accredited school with approximately 2800 undergraduate students, located in Portland, OR.
- 2005 is the first year UP has entered the competition. The school has previously been active in Mini-Baja.
- Formula SAE was initiated as a senior design project. Nine seniors and several underclassmen are invovled. Subsystem tasks are divided up by interest.
Team Goals
- Have the car driveable by March 18th. Conduct 1 and 1/2 months of testing and finishing work prior to race
- Be capable of accelerating 0-60 in under 4 seconds (by comparison a BMW M3 takes 4.8 sec) and corner at greater than 1.15 g's
- Finish all events of the competition. Only 40 of 134 cars finished the endurance race in 2004
- Finish in the top 50% overall.