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Smitty and the Professor

19 October, 2011 (07:10) | Automotive Information | By: admin

Smitty and I have been working on a series of videos for an introduction to race car engineering. Please look for them at the link: Smitty and the Professor

Racecar Engineering

7 October, 2011 (06:37) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

Some years ago my 2008 FSAE team prepared Wiki pages with background information for racecar engineering. Those pages were recently rediscovered by our 2012 team. There is a lot of interesting and useful information. Please see the links:
1. Summer 2007 racecar research; and
2. Fall 2007 racecar research.

2012 UCI Energy Invitational

4 October, 2011 (06:26) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

Planning for the 2012 Energy Invitational is underway. Please sign up at the website Energy Invitational to get more information.

First run of UCI’s 2011 FSAE Race Car

1 June, 2011 (03:43) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

This is a video from Monday, May 30 showing the first run of our FSAE race car. There is a lot of work left to do on this car, but this is great to see.
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2011 UCI Energy Invitational Video

15 April, 2011 (20:07) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

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UCI’s Center for Engineering Science in Design, Toyota, Millenworks, Kruse Technology Partnership, McCarthy Design Associates, Airflow Systems, and Southern California SAE worked together to make the 2011 Energy Invitational a success at Willow Springs Motorsports Park.

Photo of Competitors at 2011 EI2

6 April, 2011 (06:27) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

Photo of competitors

Photo of competitors


This is a group photo of the competitors at our recent 2011 Energy Invitational at the Streets of Willow Springs prepared by Lee-Huang Chen. A higher resolution image can be downloaded at the link: Energy Invitational Photo

Photos: 2011 UCI Energy Invitational

2 April, 2011 (20:35) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

Lee-Huang Chen and Corey Sandler have posted photos from our 2011 UCI Energy Invitational.

Select this link to Le-Huang Chen’s photo page.

Select this link to Corey Sandler’s Flickr account.

UCI Seniors prepare Delta for the Energy Invitational

29 March, 2011 (22:48) | Automotive Information | By: admin

UCI Delta CNG-Electric Racecar

UCI Delta CNG Racecar

The UCI Delta racecar has a CNG 450cc engine combined with a short-distance electric drive.

Another view of UCI's Delta CNG-Electric racecar

Another view of UCI's Delta CNG-Electric racecar

3rd Year MEs and 4th Year EEs team up to run at EI2

29 March, 2011 (22:33) | Automotive Information | By: admin

Third year Mechanical Engineering majors joined a team of Electrical Engineering majors from UCI to prepare an all electric vectored drive system for the UCI Energy Invitational. The drive systems for Gamma is shown here.

Vectored electric drive

Vectored electric drive


The vectored drive system consists of 15hp DC motors connected one to each of the rear drive wheels and controlled though a specially designed set of motor controllers.

1st and 2nd Year UCI Students to run in EI2

29 March, 2011 (22:25) | Automotive Information | By: admin

First and second year Engineering students at UCI have prepared a car for entry in the 2011 Energy Invitational. Here is a photo of their car.

UCIs Beta Car

UCIs Beta Car

It is powered by a 12hp Briggs and Stratton engine through a CVT and chain drive.