Formula SAE Australasia 2006
Sunday, December 10th, 2006Formula SAE is a student design competition whereby students are required to conceive, design, simulate, and fabricate their own car. It is a competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers. This competition is being held annually all over the world according to the region. There are Formula SAE competitions in
UK ,
USA ,
Germany ,
Brazil ,
Japan , and
Australia .
Formula SAE competition consists of several events in which the car is being scrutinized by the judges statically and dynamically. These events include noise test, tilt test, skid pad event, acceleration, autocross and endurance. The competition focuses mainly on the engineering aspects of the car rather than merely racing. Nonetheless, the car still has to be fast in order to compete with the rest of the teams.
After about 2 years of the starting of the Team UTP Formula SAE. The team now is now finally able to compete in the upcoming event in
Australia namely Formula SAE
Australasia . 13 Students from the team are being selected by the lecturer advisor, Mr. Mohd Syaifuddin and Mr. Mohd Arief to compete in the event. They are being lead by the team technical leader Mr. Mohd Faizan Ahmad Zuhdi. The rest of the members are: Ng Choon Hoong, Mohd Faiz Zainal Abidin, Mohamed Faiz Mohamed Amin, Khairul Anwar, Sharifah Mazliana, Azril Zakaria, Iylia Rashidi, Joshua Ng, Safwan Hanis, Fakhrul Radzi, Bahrin, and Muinnudin.
The Formula SAE Australasia 2006 will kick off on the 14th December 2006 till the 17th December 2006. Formula SAE Australasia is being considered as one of the toughest Formula SAE event around the world as the Australian teams are of the top performers in Formula SAE event in the
US and around the world.
Being the first team in
Malaysia to participate in this competition itself creates great pressure for the team as the university and the country is putting high hopes on the team. Nevertheless, the team is ready for the challenges that they are going to face during the competition. Despite all the negative feedbacks from some of the people around, I believe that Team UTP Formula SAE 2006 will complete the competition and back to the country with pride.
