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Welcome to UniSA Motorsports Newsletter 2nd Edition for the year.
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Newsletter (June Edition)
Welcome to UniSA Motorsports first official Newsletter for the year. It has been a busy time for UniSA Motorsport as we have been working very hard on our designs for the 2007 entry, much to the credit of our new team which only formed in March this year. The team of 11 final year students have developed a complete vehicle design which has now been frozen for entry into the 2007 event.
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Display event
The 2006 FSAE-A car has been put to great use entering a number of Motorsport events as well as being on display at the Adelaide Clipsal 500. In March the '06' car entered the Sporting car Clubs Motorkhana come n try day and in April the car entered the SCCSA's Hill climb come 'n' try day. Both events drawing allot of attention to the car by other entrants and spectators.
07 Car
The first stages of design and manufacture of the car have begun.
UniSA Motorsport race team aims for chequered flag
Eight UniSA Bachelor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering students have designed and constructed a Formula SAE race car as their final year project.
Formula SAE is an annual international engineering design competition that began in 1980 and run by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in the USA, UK, Japan, Europe and Australasia for university students.
The competition requires teams to conceive, design, fabricate, and compete with small formula-style racing cars. The restrictions on the car frame and engine are limited so that the knowledge, creativity, and imagination of the students are challenged.
Project supervisor, Dr Sang-Heon Lee said that that the competition offers a unique experience for young engineers.
"The opportunity of working on a year long, team orientated project to design, manufacture and race a car from scratch, raise sponsorship as well as completing their individual thesis on the aspects of the design and fabrication of the car offers those involved invaluable skills that are highly regarded in the automobile industry," he said.
UniSA Motorsport will pit their skills against teams from other universities from around Australia, and the world, by racing the car in the Australasian SAE competition which will be held in Melbourne, Victoria later this month.
The cars are judged in three different categories: static inspection and engineering design; solo performance trials; and high performance track endurance. These events are scored to determine how well the car performs.
The team raised in excess of $10,000 in cash contributions plus a significant amount of "in-kind" support from locally based companies to allow them to compete.
You can also download a full story "Engineering students tune up" from here which is advertised from Sport section (page 82) in the Advertiser newspaper on 13/Dec/2006.