Senior engineering student Katharine Brown (center) shows her research project involving the university’s Formula SAE race car April 17 outside Seigle Hall, where the spring undergraduate research symposium poster presentations took place. With Brown are team members and law school students Ricky Marcus (left) and Ryan Kemmet. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) competes in the Formula SAE competition, an automotive racing event involving hundreds of universities and thousands of students from around the world. WUSTL’s team, WUracing, allows students to apply engineering principles learned in the classroom for the design of an ultra high-performance vehicle, and it is quickly becoming the training ground for tomorrow’s race engineers. “Before we can begin building, there is a lot of research that must go into the design of each subsystem,” said Brown. “We apply the theories we have learned in our engineering classes and in the shop to create various models, including equations, computer simulations, 3-D CAD models and others. The design process begins with the generation of multiple concepts, which we whittle down in a quantitative manner to select the design that best meets our performance criteria.” More than 150 students participated in the symposium, which provides a forum for undergraduate students to showcase their research projects.
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