Baja SAE Illinois
The 3rd race of the 2017 Baja SAE series
Location
Off Campus
Date & Time
June 7, 2017, 8:00 am – Jun 10, 2017 6:00 pm
Description
UMBC Racing will travel to Peoria, Illinois, to compete in the final race of the Baja SAE North American Series.
The object of the competition is to provide SAE student members with a challenging project that involves the design, planning and manufacturing tasks found when introducing a new product to the consumer industrial market. Teams compete against one another to have their design accepted for manufacture by a fictitious firm. Students must function as a team to not only design, build, test, promote, and race a vehicle within the limits of the rules, but also to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.
All vehicles are powered by a ten-horsepower Intek Model 19 engine donated by Briggs & Stratton Corporation. For over twenty-five years, the generosity of Briggs & Stratton has enabled SAE to provide each team with a dependable engine free of charge. Use of the same engine by all the teams creates a more challenging engineering design test.