The Making of an Engineer

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When Adam Ransick first stepped foot into the Rolls-Royce Corp. offices in Indianapolis, he was an electrical engineering major at Ohio State.

Even without a diploma in hand, he was expected to take on the role of a full-time, professional engineer, because he was hired as a cooperative education student alternating quarters working at the company and taking classes on campus. Among his duties: helping to develop a health monitoring system for the lift fan that allows F-35 fighter planes to hover.

Eight years later, Ransick is a test equipment design engineer at Rolls-Royce, where he also serves as the Ohio State coordinator for hiring co-ops and interns. So he knows how students feel as they pursue their degrees and start their career searches.

“To step into that having never worked in a corporate environment, we had to fit in and find out what was expected and what quality and level your deliverable was,” Ransick remembers. “It was impressive to figure out. When I left after my six months as a co-op, I was replaced with a full-time engineer contractor.”

Impressive, yes, but also invaluable for engineering students making that big step from the academic environment to a full-time professional career.

Co-ops and internships are among many opportunities the College of Engineering, and Ohio State as a whole, offer to prepare students for that transition. Called “experiential learning” in the higher education environment, these programs provide a much deeper learning beyond the traditional understanding of engineering disciplines or technical expertise.

Such efforts are paying off for students: In a 2010 Wall Street Journal survey of recruiters from 479 of the largest U.S. public and private companies, nonprofits and government agencies, Ohio State was ranked 12th overall and 13th among engineering programs as a top pick for graduates best prepared and most able to succeed.

The college and university provide the breadth and depth of environment, faculty expertise and advanced technology required to support experiential learning.

“Our students are not only taught about engineering,” says Interim Dean Gregory Washington. “They gain more by actually experiencing it so that – before graduation – they know what engineering is; what challenges the world faces that can be addressed through engineering; how engineering differs by industry, culture and changes over time; ways engineering supports and relies on other disciplines; and what knowledge and skills they need to master to be successful.”

Some examples: Industry partners actively support students in our senior capstone projects by seeking their assistance in solving actual problems. Businesses and government entities recognize the high capabilities of our students and give them responsibilities in co-ops or internships that would otherwise be reserved for seasoned engineers. Our Engineering Education Innovation Center conducts research and implements the latest successful developments to provide top-notch education for our students. Projects at our Center for Automotive Research give students a chance to work as teams using their engineering skills to develop tomorrow’s transportation solutions.

Ohio State engineering students aren’t just hitting the books and experimenting in labs to prepare for their careers. Read on to see how they already are engineers.


Leah's Bike

Online Extra: Watch a video of Scudieri and Russ helping Leah ride the bike for the first time.

Not many engineers can say they’ve worked with local businesses, industry leaders and an 11-year-old girl to design new and innovative brakes for a bicycle.

Leah Xiao-Chan O’Keefe wanted a “big kid” bike that could shift gears, but she was born with fingers that did not extend past the first knuckle, and so braking comfortably or safely was impossible.

“I wanted a bike that could shift gears, but those bikes don’t stop when you go backward,” says Leah. “So, if you have one with shifting gears, the brake is on the handlebar, but I couldn’t reach with my hands.”

When mechanical engineering Professor Blaine Lilly heard Leah’s story, he knew her wish could be granted by two of his students: Paul Scudieri, a doctoral student in integrated systems engineering, and Kyle Russ, a master’s degree student in mechanical engineering.

“Paul and Kyle decided to work on this project out of the goodness of their hearts,” Lilly says, “but also because both of them wanted to have the experience of taking a real product all the way from the basic user need to a finished, manufactured product.”

Two students show a girl how to use her brakes

Both bicyclists themselves, Russ and Scudieri designed a safe and effective lever and combined it with a hydraulic brake system that looked the same as those on Leah’s friends’ bikes.

“Whenever I was on my bike, I was thinking about Leah,” Russ says.

After numerous rides, Russ decided that hydraulic brakes would be the best fit for Leah.

However, just choosing a type of brake wasn’t the end of the process. Russ needed to acquire the best hydraulic brake system he could find, and so he turned to Hayes Brakes, a company that had previously fixed his own mountain-bike brakes — at no charge.

“I was so impressed with this company,” Russ says.

After just one phone call, Hayes Brakes shipped out, free of charge, the brake system they felt would work best for Leah.  With the brake system in hand, the students needed to find a bike frame that could accommodate the brakes as well as the brake lever.

That process would prove more difficult than Scudieri and Russ initially thought. The brakes were a larger set and thus required a larger frame, but Leah is only 4 feet, 11 inches tall. The students soon found out that the smallest compatible frame, a Giant Rincon 12½-inch woman’s bike, was being discontinued; there were only seven in the nation.

Russ turned to employees at roll:, a Columbus-based bike company, to locate one of the bikes. As soon as he explained the project, the employees and even the owner, Stuart Hunter, wanted to figure out a way to help.

Hunter contacted Giant Bicycle Inc., and the company located the exact frame needed and shipped it to roll: which in turn sold it to Russ and Scudieri at half price. The shop also assembled the bike and donated any accessories needed for the project.

 “Roll: was just great; all the employees there were super excited about the project,” Russ says. “They were so beneficial to the process.”

Then Research Alloys donated the materials for the brake lever and SRAM, a bike component company, donated a set of grip shifters for the bike as well as valuable time consulting with the students.

“It's a good project and a good cause,” Scudieri says. “What we found with these cycling companies is generally they were smaller companies, and they're very passionate about riding. Once we told them, ‘It's a little girl’s dream to be able to ride a bike,’ they said ‘Yeah, how can we help?’”

With the help and support of various companies, the students were ready to start designing.

After many iterations, wooden prototypes, Play-Doh models of Leah’s hands and conference calls with SRAM engineers, the brake lever and the bike were finally completed. Leah woke up Christmas morning to a brand-new bike that was tailored specifically for her.

“Just seeing her excitement was more motivation,” Russ says. “The entire intent of the process was to get Leah on a bike.”

This project helped Russ land his dream job as a biomechanical engineer with Trek Bicycle Corp. in Wisconsin after graduation in June; Scudieri expects to finish his doctorate in 2012.


From Engineer to Entrepreneur

Online Extra: Guerra describes his research and company in more detail.

When looking at future colleges or graduate schools, many students worry that they might not fit the university’s atmosphere. However, when Dante Guerra, a student at New Mexico State University, arrived at Ohio State for an undergraduate summer research experience in 2006, he knew he would fit right in.

Guerra recognized that Ohio State was the perfect place for him not only to learn new topics and experience more research areas but also to capitalize on all the opportunities the university offers.

“With the help and support provided by the university and all of the ideas and creativity being promoted, if you have an idea you are just encouraged to pursue it,” Guerra says. “I decided that my opportunities were much better if I came to Ohio State.”

He decided to transfer from New Mexico State University to Ohio State and earned his bachelor’s degree in winter 2009 and then his master’s degree in fall 2009 through the BS/MS program in mechanical engineering. He is now pursuing his doctorate in integrated systems engineering as well as his MBA in strategy and entrepreneurship.


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During his summer research, Guerra worked alongside L. James Lee, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, gaining experience with polymer materials and nanotechnology. When he officially transferred to Ohio State, he also worked with Jose Castro, the director of the university’s Center for Advanced Polymer Composite Engineering. Guerra and his brother Jesse Guerra, also an Ohio State engineering doctoral and MBA student, began working at CAPCE.“I was only a mechanical engineer, running though my fundamentals in my undergraduate education, and I got exposed to these brilliant technologies here at Ohio State,” Guerra says.

Through the support of CAPCE, Guerra acquired for Ohio State a new five-axis, high-pressure water jet cutter that uses different abrasives in a process of accelerated erosion to remove bits of materials at an advancedrate. This allows engineering researchers to create better and stronger samples of composite materials not only for research, but for industry as well. With access to this new machine, researchers at Ohio State now have the ability to make and test samples of any material in a way not possible before.

Since starting his doctoral research, Guerra has worked with CAPCE and industry to solve technical and manufacturing problems. The experience helped Guerra recognize an opportunity to start his own company based off of a technology he developed called Buckeye NanoPaper, a non-woven fabric material comprised solely of nanoparticles such as carbon nanotubes. This non-woven material can be used as a surface reinforcement to help strengthen and protect various composite materials. He was joined in the venture by his brother.

“We started collaborating with industry to solve market needs. Industry would come to us and say, ‘We have this issue. Can you offer us a solution — this is what we need,’” Dante Guerra says. “That was at a technical level. However, being exposed to industry, talking to CEOs, directors and presidents of companies such as Owens Corning and Ashland Chemical, I realized there's a huge potential for a business here.”

He changed his line of thinking and enrolled in the Fisher College of Business MBA program to expand his knowledge of the market as well as capitalize on the opportunities he discovered at Ohio State.

In 2009, Guerra and his brother took the Business Management 890 Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship class taught by Michael Camp, executive director for Fisher’s Center for Entrepreneurship. The course gives students an existing Ohio State technology that is awaiting licensing and requires the students to figure out the technology’s killer application and develop a product concept around that application.

After learning so much, Guerra and his brother asked Camp for permission to take the course again, this time focusing on their own technology. This primary course then fed into a second class, in which the Guerras could further refine and implement their business idea, eventually founding a company called NanoInnovations, with the help of executive mentors.

“We're going through the process of actually requesting funding, getting private investments, securing the technology, licensing it from Ohio State and trying to develop the products and take them to market,” Guerra says. “It’s essentially going through the processes of commercialization in real terms.”

Guerra realized his NanoPaper had potential for numerous applications, but he thought the killer application was in the wind energy field. Wind turbine blades are constantly rotating to produce electricity. However, in bad weather, those blades can accumulate a large layer of ice, which significantly decreases performance and could send blocks of ice flying into the nearest house or street.

Because of that danger, wind turbine farms are confined to some distance away from residential areas; routing the energy to those areas, where it is needed most, is costly. The Buckeye NanoPaper technology can change all that by protecting the blades from accumulating ice, thus making it possible for wind turbine farms to be located closer to residential and suburban areas. 

“We have a conductive layer of NanoPaper on the surface of the turbine blade, and then we apply a voltage to it to melt the ice off completely,” Guerra says. “And the energy required for that is just a small percentage of that being produced by the turbine itself, so you don’t need any additional input of energy.”

After Guerra markets this technology to the wind-energy industry, he hopes to move on to other applications.

“We believe that there are multiple applications in many vertical markets and intend to structure our business to take advantage of each individual application for the technology,” Guerra says.

For example, the United States is involved in many desert-environment conflicts, like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which put extreme stress on the rotor blades of helicopters. The blades then have to be inspected, maintained or even replaced as often as every 72 hours of operation. Guerra’s Buckeye NanoPaper could coat the blades and act as a shield against the sand or other causes of erosion, increasing the blades’ durability in these environments.

“We are going to continue commercializing the Buckeye NanoPaper,” Guerra says “and we hope we can collaborate with Ohio State to mature the technology not only for this application but for all the other identified applications.”


A Solution for Safety

As part of an industry-sponsored capstone course, three mechanical engineering students are working with mentor Leo Rusli, a research engineer, to re-design a shear pin for sub-sea equipment.

Cameron, a Houston-based, international provider of flow equipment products, systems and services to worldwide oil, gas and process industries, asked the student team to come up with pin designs that safely take the maximum working torque load of the equipment without risk of failure but that also would shear off and shut down the operation in the case of overload to prevent damage to sensitive equipment.

“Cameron is telling our students about the current material and design of these shear pins but leaving requirements open ended so students can come up with solutions,” explains Bob Rhoads, capstone design program coordinator. “A lot of companies give projects to our students for exactly that reason — they want the fresh ideas from people outside their own companies.”


Ride Like the Wind

When aerospace engineering senior Zachary Webster heard that Honda R&D Americas Inc. funded capstone projects, he took the initiative, as an intern there, to develop a unique course.

As a result, he and other aerospace engineering seniors are designing an SUV-type vehicle focused on aerodynamic shape.

Honda is challenging the students to design the model in a way to achieve the lowest possible drag coefficient — leading to improved fuel efficiency — for the upper-body shape and features. Although the vehicle dimensions, such as engine room, cabin and package hauling, are based on a current production model, the students have the freedom to design and develop the entire upper body with their choice of experimental means. They also must weigh the cost vs. benefit of their design.

“When the students are challenged to explore new ‘outside-the-box’ ideas, they really help us keep a fresh perspective and an open mind,” says Mike Ellington, a vehicle development engineer with Honda R&D Americas Inc. “That’s great for us and, I think, great for them as well.”

The student team will build and test a quarter-scale model this spring. Honda will consider the students’ ideas in future automobile development.

“I think the best part of the project that made me want to try the opportunity was that I had the chance to build something I helped design without straying away from my interests in aerodynamics,” says Webster, who graduates this spring. “Designing is great, but the experience is tenfold when one gets to build and test a design. One gets to see it come to life, something that is very fulfilling.”
Webster says he would encourage all students to participate in an industry capstone project.

“It is my belief that there is nothing out of reach to students who push for what they want,” he says. “A single student can make a difference in a university, a company and others’ lives.”


Time for Innovation

Online Extra: Read more about the Social Innovation and Commercialization program.


Ohio State graduate Krista Alley works with Paul Scheetz, a 9-year-old with Down sydrome, to use the interactive time managemen
The interactive time management aid features digital and analog clocks, drawings or photographs of tasks displayed in windows sequenced from left to right, lights correlating to task duration, and sliding window covers the children can close after completing tasks.Paul Scheetz, a 9-year-old with Down syndrome, is learning to manage time and understand the sequence of activities in his day with a device developed by students from engineering and other disciplines in the college’s Social Innovation and Commercialization program.

Jenny Scheetz has seen her son’s abilities improve with the use of the device; her family has helped the Ohio State students conduct trials through the Down Syndrome Association of Central Ohio.

“He checks the clock on the device and knows when it’s time for him to use it to start his bedtime routine,” she says.

The engineering students collaborated on the project with peers from other engineering disciplines and with students majoring in business, industrial design and occupational therapy.

Funded by the college and the Tony R. Wells Foundation in its startup phase, the Social Innovation and Commercialization program enables students to find ways to increase the independence of people with disabilities by working with nonprofit agencies to identify needs, developing products that could meet those needs and following through from design to manufacturing, marketing and sales. In the long term, money generated from sales will provide revenue for the nonprofit partners and help sustain the social innovation program.

Krista Alley, who was on the original design team and received her industrial design degree in spring 2010, still works on the project as a consultant and says working with engineering students gave her a realistic view of product development.

“In industrial design, we’re more focused on the user,” she says. “But I really got to work with the engineers and found out that there are a lot of technical steps behind making it work.”

Peter Rogers, director of the Social Innovation and Commercialization program, and Alley are working with Design Central to finalize commercial prototypes. Rogers has entered discussions with a company to manufacture and distribute the device worldwide.


Two Continents, One Solution

Online Extra: Keep up on the status of the project.

Aerospace engineering students are collaborating with peers at American University of Beirut to design and build a remote-control air vehicle for landmine detection.

Ohio State Assistant Professor James Gregory obtained a $59,930 grant from the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs for the project. Ohio State students are designing the air vehicle; the Beirut students are developing the sensors. They’ll all be in Lebanon in late spring to test the resulting detector.

“They have to work across cultural barriers, language barriers and different value systems as a team to come up with a good project,” Gregory says. “This is international collaboration in its raw, pure form.”

Weam Aboul Hosn, an American of Lebanese descent studying mechanical engineering at the American University of Beirut, says the project offers experiences they could not have in Lebanon, such as funding for the sensors.

“We’re learning about new sensors and new technologies in addition to the cultural aspect and gaining new friends. That was the best part for me,” he says, “and we don’t have aerospace engineering at American University of Beirut.”

Ohio State graduating senior Greg Busch says the team learned to cooperate quickly and efficiently, given the trials of working across continents and time zones sometimes even without the benefit of video conferencing.

“We had to explain what we were doing when we couldn’t show it,” he says, noting that the two short visits Ohio State students are making to Lebanon and one visit of their peers to the U.S. isn’t enough time to complete all of the tasks together in person. “It’s been good experience to have before we go out into our fields, especially in aerospace,” he says. “I work for Boeing, and they do almost everything internationally. To be able to learn many cultures before I leave college is a good goal to have.”


Real Rocket Science

Online Extra: Learn more about the College of Engineering's co-op and internship programs.


Mechanical engineering major Madelyn (Maddy) Gruseck, in front of International Space Station mockups used for testing and resea
Earlier this year, she was happy to report the certification of a tool she helped worked on to secure a failed ammonia pump for travel back to Earth from the International Space Station. The pump will be retrieved this summer so NASA can investigate the failure.Madelyn Gruseck, a mechanical engineering undergraduate scheduled to graduate in 2013, has amazing stories to tell about co-op stints she’s had at NASA’s Johnson Space Center: She worked in Mission Control for the International Space Station Attitude Determination and Control Officer, a position in charge of “driving” the Space Station; became certified to teach astronauts how to use a software program; designed a vehicle to test parachutes for the new Orion spacecraft for astronauts; and worked on finding a way to “anchor” a space vehicle to an asteroid for possible future missions.

“The pump module will be stored in the Shuttle Payload Bay, so crew members would be unable to reach a set of contingency pins if the primaries failed,” Gruseck explains. “The tool I have been working on is called the Contingency Operations LAPA Tool, which will be installed on the pump module before removing it from the space station and used to secure the pump if needed.”

Approximately 70 percent of the college’s undergraduate students participate in our 20-year-old cooperative education or internship programs. The college’s reputation for producing engineering talent, as well as for providing superior services to employers, has attracted more than 800 national and international employers including Fortune 500 companies, small and medium-sized manufacturers, engineering and technical services firms, and state and federal agencies.

“Our students are entrusted with high-level assignments each quarter, from working on the design and testing of new products to contributing to major technical presentations for corporate executives,” says Rachel Ligman, Co-op and Internship Program manager. “I am continuously amazed each time I read another outstanding evaluation from an employer regarding the performance of our students participating in co-ops and internships. I am very optimistic about the future of the field.”

Gruseck will also co-op at the Johnson Space Center this summer and next.

“I hope to return to NASA full time upon graduation,” she says, “and continue doing work for the Engineering Directorate, focusing on design.”


Leadership through Service

Online Extra: Learn more about Dollars 4 Change.

As a senior in high school a few years ago, Kunal Parikh conducted research with Jessica Winter, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and biomedical engineering.  The experience solidified his decision to study chemical engineering at Ohio State.

From right: Dollars 4 Change President Kunal Parikh works with Harry Yeprem
Still working with Winter, he is developing a nanopatterned contact lens to improve corneal healing and a biosynthetic corneal implant. Skills he hones in the lab, including adapting to change, maintaining economic and time efficiency and presenting his work to others, he says, have been integral to his engineering as well as leadership and service opportunities.As a senior in high school a few years ago, Kunal Parikh conducted research with Jessica Winter, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and biomedical engineering. The experience solidified his choice to earn his chemical engineering degree at Ohio State.

His motivation to inspire and lead others prompted him to establish three student groups.

The largest, Dollars 4 Change, develops sustainable community partnerships and raises funds and awareness for local nonprofits. A clothing drive by the group, which now exceeds 200 members, collected more than 1,000 items for Columbus’ Open Shelter.

“The clothing drive they did was phenomenal for a first-time drive,” says Harry Yeprem, development coordinator at the Open Shelter. “They brought in a pickup truck and a car full of clothing; that went to help a lot of people.”

Parikh also founded the Ohio State Chapter of Young Jains of America, a faith-based group, and Students 4 A Healthy Campus, with a mission to create a tobacco-free university.

In addition to his chemical engineering major, he is minoring in entrepreneurship and political science.

“Research, business and policy: That’s kind of my three-pronged attack to how I want to help the world. My ideal future would be to hold a research position, hold a public office, and start my own company at the same time,” says Parikh, who plans to graduate in 2012. “I’m passionate about all three, and all three provide me with the opportunity to help people.”


They’re Back!

Online Extra: Watch the enCORE team's progress and catch news of the Solar Decathlon competition this fall.


Decathlon team members
This fall, students will take their new entry, enCORE house, to Washington, D.C., to compete against 20 teams from the U.S., New Zealand, Belgium, Canada and China.An Ohio State student team has again been selected to enter the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored Solar Decathlon, which every other year challenges collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient and attractive.

In 2009, Ohio State’s team finished its first-ever Solar Decathlon entry in 10th place. That house is on display at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, where visitors learn about the design and workings of a solar-powered home.

The students’ 2011 entry, designed with a family-friendly layout, includes a cost-effective solar array with a flat-plate collector and thin-film panels, which can be effective even under overcast skies; a hot air system to heat the house in the winter and dissipate humidity in the summer; a sloped roof to collect rainwater; and a bioremediation system to filter and recycle used water.

“The enCORE house has been designed to be a net-positive home, which means it will produce at least as much energy as it uses,” says Matthew O’Kelly, a 2009 team member who received his mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree in 2010 and is working on his master’s degree.

“Through my continued involvement with the team as the project engineer, I have improved my project management leadership skills,” O’Kelly says.

Engineering and architecture students are joined in the effort by peers in many majors, including construction systems management, communication, physics and environmental science.

“We have team members from all over the university, and it is so fun to collaborate with them and learn how they approach a problem differently than I do with my engineering background,” says another returning decathlete, mechanical engineering undergraduate Ellen Gentry. “We also bring in a lot of contractors who act as mentors to our students, which is extremely beneficial for both sides.”


The Winning Drive

Buckeye Electric Motorcycle

Online Extra: Watch a video of Ewing describing more details about the motorcycle and follow the team’s progress.

Sean Ewing has been around the world in his tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force, but at Ohio State, he embarks on a journey of a different kind.

Ewing, a senior in electrical and computer engineering, is spearheading the Buckeye Electric Motorcycle Team, which, with more than 40 members from different majors even beyond engineering, has the support of various companies and industry leaders.

“It’s always good for engineers to know how to turn a wrench,” Ewing says. “They’re getting their hands dirty.”


students mock up motor mount meticulously
“From business to engineering to communication majors, all the students on the team are learning just tons and tons of information,” Ewing says.But turning a wrench doesn’t even begin to describe the team’s experience. Ewing is honing management skills, and he and his peers are making the rounds to gain support from CEOs and journalists while constructing an electric motorcycle they expect will be on par with or exceed multimillion-dollar funded bikes.

This year marks the first season of the Buckeye Electric Motorcycle Team, which will compete in the eGrandPrix, or TTXGP. The team’s first race will be May 14 at the Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.

Buckeye Bullet


students work
Original Buckeye Bullet, powered by 2,000 pounds of nickel metal hydride batteriesOver the past 10 years, the Buckeye Bullet has set numerous official speed records while racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The records differ due to criteria based on the Bullet’s source of electric power and whether the fastest speeds were certified as national records, by the Southern California Timing Association, or international records, by the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile. Those records, so far, include:
  • 2003: national record, 271.459 mph
  • 2004: national record, 314.958 mph

Buckeye Bullet 2, the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell powered land speed racing research vehicle

  • 2007: international record, 132.129 mph
  • 2009: interntional record, 302.877 mph

Venturi Buckeye Bullet 2.5, revamped with lithium ion batteries

  • 2010: international record, 307.666 mph

Students continue to work on improving the vehicle’s performance on batteries, aiming for a return to the Salt Flats in 2012 as the Buckeye Bullet 3 with hopes to break its own international record by topping 400 mph.

Online Extra: Read more about the team and the Buckeye Bullet.

EcoCAR: The Next Challenge


students install a catalyst
Online Extra: Follow the team at www.ecocarchallenge.com and watch a video of the students describing their experience.The EcoCAR team is competing in the final of three years of EcoCAR: The Next Challenge, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors Corp., to re-engineer a GM-donated crossover utility vehicle using advanced powertrain technologies to minimize energy consumption and emissions. The students must maintain the performance quality, safety and consumer appeal of the vehicle. Ohio State placed first in the first year and fifth in the second year. The 16 U.S. collegiate teams end the competition June 5-16. Ohio State already has been selected to participate in the next three-year competition, EcoCAR 2, which requires students to explore a variety of powertrain architectures and follow a real-world engineering regimen modeled after GM’s Global Vehicle Development Process.

Formula SAE


student operates machine
Online Extra: Read more about the team.Formula SAE is a student design competition organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers) to conceive, design, fabricate and race small Formula-style racing cars. The team, which includes students from different majors such as mechanical, electrical and welding engineering as well as business administration and marketing, competes against others from more than 140 colleges and universities. Ohio State team members are preparing for the next race, June 15-18 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.

 

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