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Thirteen proved to be a lucky number for UA engineering students as they continued to dominate Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) competitions with a first-place Regular Class win and a second-place Open Class win in the 2002 Aero Design West Competition held recently in Lancaster, Calif.
This is the 13th time Akron SAE teams have garnered a first-place Aero Design award since they began competing in 1990. The win comes on the heels of a first-place Open Class win in the Aero Design East competition held in April in Titusville, Fla.
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| Members of the Mini Baja team are pictured here with their adviser, Richard Gross, associate professor of mechanical engineering.Standing next to him are Bill Gross and Zach Utz. In the front row, from left, are Jeff DeWitt, Jared Utz and Matt Lux. |
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Meanwhile, members of Akron’s SAE Mini Baja team captured first place in the 2002 Mini Baja Midwest Competition. The event, which included more than 100 schools from around the world, was held May 30 to June 2 in Waukesha, Wis. This is the second consecutive year a UA Mini Baja team garnered first place — and the sixth first place win since UA began competing in 1990.
Mini Baja teams design and build an off-road vehicle capable of negotiating rough terrain. The competition includes static and dynamic events such as cost, sales presentation, engineering design and safety, maneuverability, acceleration and a grueling endurance race.
The goal of the Aero Design competition is to build a radio-controlled aircraft that lifts the most weight. Planes in the Open Class are of unlimited size with engines restricted to a total displacement of two cubic inches. In Regular Class, planes are restricted to a single, standard engine and a 1,200-square-inch platform area.
Forty-three teams competed — four in Open Class and 39 in Regular Class. The winning UA plane, “Voodoo,” lifted 26.4 pounds in Regular Class and was judged as the best-designed plane. The Ohio State University placed second in the event and the University of Utah took third place.
In the Open Class event, the UA plane, “Havoc,” came in second, behind Ecole Polytechnique De Montreal and ahead of third-place Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach.
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