{"id":81,"date":"2023-09-09T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:11:21","slug":"about-baja-sae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/","title":{"rendered":"ND Baja SAE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Catching the &quot;Baja Bug&quot; at Notre Dame\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GN2Qupai_UE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2>Baja SAE<\/h2>\n<p>Baja SAE\u00ae is an intercollegiate engineering design competition for undergraduate and graduate engineering students. \u00a0The object of the competition is to simulate real-world engineering design projects and their related challenges. \u00a0Each team is competing to have its design accepted for manufacture by a fictitous firm. \u00a0The students must function as a team to design, engineer, build, test, promote, and compete with a vehicle within the limits of the rules. \u00a0They must also generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8211; Baja SAE\u00ae Program Objective<\/p>\n<h2>Notre Dame Baja<\/h2>\n<p>The University of Notre Dame Baja Team is dedicated to competing at the highest level of the Baja SAE competition. \u00a0The team members learn to apply their engineering education to a demanding project that requires strict time management, budgeting, team organization, precise design, and careful execution of the build. Through the process of taking a design from the concept stages to a tested and raced product, students learn what it takes to be successful in a competitive environment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/files\/2017\/09\/Turning-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/files\/2017\/09\/Turning-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/files\/2017\/09\/Turning-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/files\/2017\/09\/Turning-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/files\/2017\/09\/Turning.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Notre Dame Baja Car in Action<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Baja SAE at Notre Dame, check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GN2Qupai_UE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this video<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h2>Compete, Survive, Win<\/h2>\n<p>The Baja SAE\u00ae competitions involve many dynamic events, such as acceleration,<br \/>maneuverability and suspension trials, but culminate in a 4-hour endurance race. The<br \/>overarching goal is to design and build a vehicle that will survive the punishment imposed<br \/>through 4 hours of negotiating this rough terrain, inclusive of logs, jumps, mud, rocks and<br \/>much more. Each race is limited to 100 schools, and only a small fraction of those complete<br \/>the full 4 hours.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baja SAE Baja SAE\u00ae is an intercollegiate engineering design competition for undergraduate and graduate engineering students. \u00a0The object of the competition is to simulate real-world engineering design projects and their related challenges. \u00a0Each team is competing to have its design accepted for manufacture by a fictitous firm. \u00a0The students must function as a team to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4691,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bajasae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}