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Design and Optimization of an SAE Baja Vehicle

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The purpose of the 2014-15 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Baja MQP was to design, develop, and manufacture a vehicle within the specifications of the SAE Baja Competition in order to enter a future competition. The chassis inherited from the 2013-14 SAE Baja MQP was utilized as a framework that the new designs had to integrate within. The success of the vehicle at competition will be driven by the individual subcomponents that make it unique including a dual differential four-wheel drive system, double wishbone suspension configuration in the front and rear, and five-speed manual transmission with a custom case that were all designed and developed by the team using software simulations, finite analysis, and optimization to test subcomponent interactions and packaging considerations.

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  • E-project-042815-121714
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  • 2015
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  • 2015-04-28
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