From 16th to 18th at YU Gyeongsan Campus, 38 teams fro m26 universities compete fiercely
Overall best goes to KOREATECH ‘Ja.Yeon.In.’ Team, YU teams take 2nd and 3rd places
[July 18, 2015]
<2015 Baja SAE Participant Car Parade>
The race to dreams, ‘Baja SAE KOREA at Yeungnam University 2015’ completed its three days of excitement and held its finale on the 18th.
In this tournament, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, ‘Ja.Yeon.In’ Team of KOREATECH took first place to receive the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award, trophy, winner’s flag and a cash prize of 3 million won. 2nd place when to the ‘YUSAE’ team of YU and the YU ‘CMDM A’ team. The ‘YUSAE’ and ‘CMDM' teams of YU took first and second place in the 2014 tournament, and thus placed in the top three for the second straight year to show that they are powerhouses in vehicle building tournaments. For each sector ’Team Miracle’ of Hanbat University and ‘Speeding B’ team of Keimyung University took the durability awards, YU ‘CMDM Bteam’ took the acceleration award, ‘Team Exponential’ of Ulsan University took the rock-climbing award, and ‘Baqu4’ of Hanyang University took the mobility award.
<KOREATECH ‘Ja.Yeon.In’ Team – Grand Prize>
38 teams from 26 universities including KOREATECH and Hanyang University participated in Baja SAE 2015 that was held at the YU Gyeongsan Campus from the 16th to 18th to compete fiercely.
Team leader Lee Won-min (24, Mechanical Engineering, junior) of the Chungnam National University ‘Four Wheels Team’ said, “This is already my third time participating since I was a freshman. The level of participants continuously improve every year and so I learn a lot after the tournament ends.” He added, “Despite this having excellent race tracks and infrastructure compared to any other tournament, it’s disappointing that there are not more participating universities. I hope that next year, more students will participate so that this can be a festival for us to see and learn more.”
The participants who parked the vehicles that they built with their own hands at the designated parking lot on the 15th registered at 8 a.m. on the 16th at 8 a.m. and began static tests that included vehicle design creativity, structural stability, driver convenience, ease of maintenance, and mass-productivity, followed by basic control inspections and rule meetings until late in the evening.
At 9 a.m. on the 17th, they held the official opening ceremony with the attendance of all participating teams, volunteers and sponsoring institutes at the main field and began a car parade of participating teams at the main field and streets around the school. In the afternoon, the dynamic test was held to measure acceleration, max speed, towing power, rock climbing, and passing mud waters. On the 18th, durability tests, which was the highlight of the tournament, was held on a 3.2km off-road track at the hill behind the YU water purification center.
Professor Hwang Pyeong (Mechanical Engineering), the chairman of the competition who has been responsible for operation of the tournament for 20 years, said, “Students worked hard from design and production of their vehicles for about a year to participate in the tournament,” and added, “The theories they learned in class and field experience through this tournament will be valuable assets to students.”
‘Baja SAE Korea’ is a tournament for students to compete with vehicles they build ground-up and began in 1996. It received approval for the first time in Korea by the US SAE (Society of Automobile Engineers) in 2001 and became an international competition being held annually at YU.
Results of the competition are published to the entire world through the SAE official homepage (www.sae.org) and publications.
