Real-world experience--United Performance Metals works with university students to laser cut brake parts for a one-of-a-kind race car

摘要

For college students, end-of-semester term papers and exams often require burning the midnight oil. In addition to their coursework, the Formula SAE team at California State University, Fullerton, is spending long hours on campus gaining real-world engineering experience by designing and building a unique race car.Formula SAE is a student design competition organized by Warrendale, Pa .-based SAE International, an association of engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial vehicle industries (formerly the Society of.Automotive Engineers). More than 140 universities around the world compete to design a scaled-down Formula-style race car.