Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Cougar Baja attended their final trip this year to their only SAE competition in Cookeville Tennessee. There are three SAE events a year, one in the Midwest, one on the west coast, and one on the east cost. These events are sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers and host 100 teams, and this year over 20% of those teams were international. The event was suppose to be four days long and include a sales presentation where you make your product (baja car) marketable, a design presentation to talk about and explain the engineering decisions you made during the design to engineers from large automotive engineering companies, a series of dynamic events which tested pulling ability, maneuverability, and suspension testing, and a 4 hour long endurance race the last day. Unfortunately due to incoming bad weather the last day, they compressed the events on Saturday and Sunday to avoid the storm.