About Us
OUR MISSION:
Provide students an environment to challenge themselves, expand their knowledge, and grow as a team, through real-world experiences.
Who are we?
As a team of impassioned students, WWU Racing focuses on building knowledge and exploring passions through the development of a formula–style race car. Our team is comprised of four crucial systems. The business system focuses on the financial, community, and sponsor relations side of the project, while our engineering team focuses on the development and manufacturing of the car proper.
Throughout this process, our members gain hands-on experience and become equipped with knowledge that they can apply to their careers after graduation. Our engineers learn how to use CAD systems to design the car, as well as analyze key data to make tweaks to optimize the car’s performance and enhance driver feel. Meanwhile, our business team learn how to create system budgets, do cost management, and work with public outreach.
Regardless of their respective position in the team, all our members learn key soft skills ranging from time management to teamwork and communication. Our team prides itself on the level at which our team members are ready for the real world post-graduation, and we are always striving to reach that goal.
What do we do?
For over forty years, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has hosted annual competitions known as Formula SAE (FSAE). This competition allows engineering students the opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge that they have been learning in the classroom and put it towards something substantial. In competition, universities across the globe come together to compete, showing off their hard work in the form of competitions ranging from wheel-to-wheel racing to business to design.
SAE requires that the cars be designed as autocross racers, setting rules and regulations that the engineers have to work around to create their cars. In addition to the requirements established by the SAE, the engineers also have financial constraints, as they have to find sponsors to fund their projects. This means that the car must be built with materials that are durable, but also inexpensive to produce and manufacture with.
WWU Racing is proud to source the majority of our cars’ components in-house. Although time-consuming, in-house development and manufacturing save the team a significant amount of funds and allow us to focus those funds on places that need them. Over the course of building a car, our engineers learn a variety of manufacturing techniques, from machining both manually and CNC to welding to 3D printing to many more. Having an intimate knowledge of manufacturing techniques allows our engineers to more effectively design around them, both in Formula SAE and in their future careers.
