Society of Automotive Engineers
While the Department does not have a student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), a number of students join the national society and enter the national Baja SAE Competition and the national Formula SAE Competition.
What is SAE?
What do cars, aircraft, trucks, off-highway equipment, engines, materials, manufacturing, and fuels have in common? SAE. The Society of Automotive Engineers is a one-stop resource for technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space. More than 83,000 engineers, business executives, educators, and students from more than 97 countries belong to SAE and share information and exchange ideas for advancing the engineering of mobility systems.
National SAE website(opens in new window)
Baja SAE Competition
Baja SAE is a competition that is sponsored by SAE in which students design and build an off-road vehicle using a Briggs & Stratton 10 hp OHV Intek Engine. Our team competes against teams from schools all over the world in five events: hill climb, top speed, maneuverability, presentation and documentation, and 100 mile endurance race. Students working on this project will learn teamwork and gain experience in engineering design, manufacturing, business, and marketing, Most importantly students will have fun while getting hands on experience related to their major field of study. To learn more about the project contact one of the group's officers.
Baja SAE 2023-2024 Officers
President: Samaher Shaheen
soshaheen@csuchico.edu
Vice President: Roman Padilla
repadilla@csuchico.edu
Treasurer: Treyton Wood
trwood@csuchico.edu
Public Relations: Ashley Ballantyne
aeballantyne@csuchico.edu
Faculty Adviser: Professor O'Connor
Dmoconnor@csuchico.edu
Formula SAE Competition
Formula SAE is an international collegiate design competition started in 1979, originally know as Mini Indy. The main objective of the Formula SAE competition is to provide students with an outlet to apply engineering principles they’ve learned in the classroom to real work experiences. For the competition, a student team must design, build and test a Formula-style racecar which will be required to withstand events including acceleration, braking, skid pad, autocross and endurance.
Along with the working prototype, the team must also submit a comprehensive design report of the vehicle to be evaluated for its potential as a viable production item. Originally, the Formula SAE competition started out small but has now become one of the largest student engineering competitions in the world. In 2011, 121 teams from 12 countries competed at the Detroit, Michigan event.
Formula SAE 2023-2024 Officers
President: Cedric McKinney
cmckinney@csuchico.edu
Vice President: David Kerr
dwkerr@csuchico.edu
Treasurer: Lucas Butler
lrbutler@csuchico.edu
Faculty Adviser: Professor Koehler
HKoehler@csuchico.edu
