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Sponsorship Packet 2015-2016

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Sponsorship Information

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Formula SAE is an intercollegiate competition oranized for students to design, fabricate, and compete small, formula-style racing cars. First held in 1979, the competition has grown to include 2 U.S. and 9 International events which take place annually in Europe, Asia, South Amer-ica and Australia. These events attract more than 500 teams from at least 40 countries.

The Society of Automotive Engineers dictate the competition regulations. These regulations ensure the racecar designs are safe as well as innovative. In addition to racing the car, students must present the product to a panel of industry professionals, who will discuss the design, engi-neering, and costs of the vehicle.

The competition is broken up into threestatic events and five dynamic events. Static events include the cost event, sales presentation and design presentation. Dynamic events focus on the cars performance. The events include acceleration, skid pad, autocross, and a 22km endurance event which tests the cars fuel econ-omy and reliability. In addition to these trials, all cars go through rigorous technical inspections ensuring the safety of the vehicle and the driver’s gear.

Viking 53 at 2012 Competition

What is Formula SAE?The Competition

Point Breakdown

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Western Washington University’s Formula SAE, operates out of the world–renowned Vehicle Re-search Institute (VRI). Since 1989, the VRI has numerous awards and achievements.

For the third year in a row, WWU’s SAE has developed a new chassis. The chassis built this past year, was developed in the image of the Viking 43 model, boasting a carbon monocoque chassis.That chassis focused on lowering the driver and weight as much as possible in order to minimize weight and optimize rigidity without impacting the car’s aerodynamics.

By completing all events, Viking 54 proved that the powertrain components we developed were innovative and reliable. So reliable in fact, that the Viking 54 finished 17th in competition against 120 other teams at the Michigan International Speedway.

The team went through many renderings focus-ing on aerodynamic packaging. By using data acquisition systems and computational fluid dynamics, our team drastically improved our designs as well as our overall success.

Team History

Viking 544th place Cost Report17th place Overall,Formula SAE Michigan

First full attempt made by Western at a fully electricFormula SAE car

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A subcategory of Formula SAE is Formula Baja; a group which focuses on building an off-road vehicle designed to race through varying types of terrain.

Once students come up with a design for their offroad vehicle, they must then fabricate a vehi-cle, run it through a series of tests and strive to have their design chosen by a fictitious firm in competition against teams from other schools.

Unlike the Formula SAE racecar competition, all participants in the Baja competition must build vehicles powered by the same, Model 20 engine from the Briggs & Stratton Corporation. This en-gine produces just ten-horsepower and because

all teams must use it, there is a more challenging test of engineering that they all must overcome. The Briggs & Stratton Corporation has provided this engine, free of charge for more than twen-ty-five years.

The competition for Baja has an engineering de-sign event, a cost event, and a sales presentation event. There are also a series of dynamic events where teams are tested on their vehicle’s ability in categories of acceleration, hill climb/traction, and manueverability. The specialty event tests the endurance of the vehicle.

Viking 53 at 2012 Competition

Formula Baja

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As we enter the 2015/2016 season, we bring a new series of tools and ideas to the design of this year’s car.

Viking 58 boasts an all-new 3/5ths composite monocoque chassis developed using previously unutilized composites and analysis methods. An improved version of Viking 54’s aerodynamics package has been designed for use with a new un-dertray, making Viking 58 the first WWU’s Formula SAE car to utilize aerodynamic aids at competition.

Suspension and control systems have been opti-mized allowing us to maximize utility of the systems. With the help of data acquisition, new advances have been made in our design. These advance-

ments include the use of air dampers in the suspen-sion, a new intake, quieter exhaust combination, and a newly developed electronic shifting system.

Our SAE has a head start on this year’s Viking 58 design as well as an excellent team of eager, highly motivated students. We expect to see great things from WWU’s SAE this coming year, and would like for you to be in on the action!

VIKING 58 – COMING MAY 2016

The Viking 58 - Developed using CATIA

Advancements

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Sponsor us! Western Washington University pro-vides us with a shop, machinery and education. Still, we can’t do this without you; SAE is student run, not for profit and without funding from the University. WWU Formula SAE relies on support from companies, groups, and private donors. Donations provide the material and monetary support needed to build our vehicles and get them competition ready, year after year.

Other ways we appreciate support:

Join us in our social media campaign to gain support and tell people about SAE!

Visit us on Facebook to keep up on our prog-ress, photos, and team updates.

How to Support the Team

Be a Part of the Team!

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By supporting us, students gain a new type of education in automotive design, manufacturing and the business industry. Formula SAE allows students to acquire excperience through self directed, hands on projects. This type of learning simply cannot be done in a classroom.

Because of SAE, students are entering the work-force with the knowledge which allows them to jump right in to the business and engineering world.

By supporting us you join our team! Help us fur-ther the next generation of engineers. Your invest-ment will benefit the future of these students and provide them with learning oppurtuinties which will stay with them for the rest of their careers and even their lives.

The Next Generation of EngineersDirectly Supporting Student’s Education

WWU’s Vehicle Research Institute

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Every year, our team gains enormous amounts of publicity through websites, online forums, maga-zines, promotional videos, social media, apparel, stickers, competition, local automotive events and autocrosses.

The competition itself draws industry profession-als and hosts students from around the world who will enter the engineering, manufacturing and the business field.

Viking cars have been featured in magazines “Road & Track”and “RaceTech”. Viking 43 was on the front cover of the September 2008 issue

of the UK’s magazine: “Racecar Engineering”.

The cars are also displayed at a number of local events such as the Northwest Porsche Club’s autocrosses, Chuckanut Sports Car Club Events, and several Western Washington University gath-erings.

If you sponsor our team, your organization’s logo will be featured on the 2015-2016 vehicle, our website, and the apparell we sell. We put a large focus on publicly displaying our supporters, they are part of the team, after all!

Benefits of SponsoringAdvertising

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If you have further questions or would like to make a donation to SAE contact Vasiliy;

email: [email protected] Phone: 425-210-6456