CSUN FSAE race team

CSUN FSAE joins the 2013 Energy Invitational

CSUN FSAE race team

CSUN FSAE race team

The California State University Northridge Formula SAE race team will compete at the Energy Invitational on May 11, 2013.

CSULA supermileage race team

CSULA Supermileage joins 2013 Energy Invitational

CSULA supermileage race team

CSULA supermileage race team

The California State University Los Angeles supermileage race team will compete at the 2013 Energy Invitational.

CSULA FSAE race car

CSULA FSAE to compete at the 2013 Energy Invitational

CSULA FSAE race car

CSULA FSAE race car

The California State University Los Angeles Formula SAE race team will compete at the 2013 Energy Invitational on May 11, 2013

UC Davis racecar

UC Davis to compete at the 2013 Energy Invitational

2013 UC Davis raceteam

2013 UC Davis raceteam

UC Davis racecar

UC Davis racecar

The UC Davis race team will compete at the 2013 Energy Invitational at Adams Motorsports Park on Saturday, May 11, 2013.

2013 UCI race team

Zeta on display at UCI’s Energy Invitational Test Day

2013 UCI race team

2013 UCI race team

2013 UCI race team with Zeta, our entry for the 2013 FSAE Electric, which is under construction. There is work to do but the goal is to debut this racecar at the 2013 Energy Invitational on May 13, 2013.

2013 Energy Invitational Medal

2013 Energy Invitational Medal

2013 Energy Invitational Medal

2013 Energy Invitational Medal

This is the medal for our 2013 Energy Invitational, which gets underway at 8:00am Saturday, May 11, 2013 at Adams Motorsports Park.

Energy Invitational Test Day 5-4-2013

 

Saturday, May 5, UCI hosted seven local high school race teams to test their cars for the Energy Invitational. It was impressive to see the quality of their work and the variety of their designs. Select this link to see photographs of the event on Facebook.

Tensegrity Linkage

Tensegrity Linkage

This is a design concept that uses tensegrity beam elements as the bars of a large-scale linkage system for use in deployable structures for disaster relief. This animation is by Mark Plecnik.

Veyron W16

W16 Veyron engine

This animation shows the W16 Bugatti Veyron engine with four cam-shafts actuating 64 valves, four on each of sixteen cylinders.

V8 Valves

Cam actuation in a V8 engine

This animation shows the operation of the cam shaft, lifters and valves in a V8 engine.