I am a member of and the technical director at one of the FSAE teams here in Canada, FormuleETS. This year, we won the Electrical Vehicle competition at FSAE Michigan and participated in 3 European competitions. If you're ever in Montreal, you should swing by and take a look at the shop and the car!
ETS has a great history in a lot of SAE competitions, definitely a great school to visit, they really do some killer cars and gives great design presentations
So cool to see this happening. I so missed the boat in school. Zero career counselling in school and have only found machining and 'making' now that I have adult money.
This was a great amount of exposure to FSAE. I'm the Chief Engineer and Chassis Lead up north of Wichita, in Manhattan, at Kansas State University. These guys are great. NIAR actually is one of our big sponsors, they help us cure our composite monocoque. It's been such a valuable experience for me and many of my other colleagues on the team.
I would tend to agree. I learned a lot of hands on from my dad, who wasn't afraid to try things that others might not have tried before. Presently, I have a garden tractor I'm building that has parts not necessarily related to agriculture, but work together well. My engine is a Honda 13hp 2 cylinder from a riding mower, my transaxle is from a hydrostatic Cub Cadet, my rear fender pan and steering tower are John Deere, my front axle is modified from a golf cart, my steering is hydraulic and is from a forklift, the grill is from a Ford LGT tractor, the hood is yet to be determined, but will likely be just diamond plate fabricated, and the frame is 2x2x1/4" box tube. It's taken more time than I initially planned, but the distance from my house to my shop has increased, which is something I'm working on now.
I did engineering for a year in 1967. My grades were OK, but it was so academic. The turn point came for me when I asked one of my mech engineering profs what could be causing a problem of camshaft spalling on my race bike. When he answered effectively ‘how would I know’, that was it for me and I transferred the next year. If we’d had something like this, I would have been overjoyed
Its awesome to see how far you've come since the first video i saw of you making things from washing machines years ago. You really are an awesome teacher and im thankful for everything you share.
This is great!!! I like how these young people are using their theoretical knowledge of engineering to make a product. You learn SOOOOOO much about engineering by using 3D cad, manufacturing parts, assemblies, how other disciplines get involved and the key thing, communication.
Students should also learn how to use tools so that they design things that can be made. These interactions with machinists and fabricators can be eye opening. Sometimes subtle differences can have profound impacts.
I was the Mechanical Lead on the World Solar Challenge for UMR in the 90's. We raced our solar cockroach up the US and Australia. We finished mid-field, which was encouraging. We had to pass road-train tests to run on highways in Australia. I used Finite Element Analysis to develop the space frame for the solar car, which was pressurized to compensate for the thin-wall tubing (after having to learn how to weld it) and won a research grant for FEA space frames.
It's nice to see the future engineers be excited about learning. I can understand hands-on being a whole lot better than just being in books. Thanks for sharing this piece...it's very encouraging! Shalom!
Graduated from Wichita State in 2022 with an Aerospace Engineering degree and worked three years in the Robotics and Automation Lab at NIAR. Great coverage of the FSAE team here; had a few friends in the club and recognized a few of the guys in the video from all my evenings walking the Halls of the EEB (now John Bardo Center). Knowledgeable and dedicated group of guys like most WSU engineers.
Nice coverage of the gem of engineering education. I graduated out of the U of Toronto's mech eng program back in 2008 and did FSAE my entire time there. Outside of just having the experience to bond and work with your team mates and travel to the competition, the practical aspect of FSAE gives us the experience to hit the ground running, not just from engineering or CAE aspect, but also practical experiences like manufacturing methods and machining and all that. I think it really gives a fresh engineer perspective on how something can be made and if the methods makes sense or feasible. I am working as an engineer in automotive in Michigan and still volunteer for the competition every year. Seeing the students do their thing every year is always a treat.
Love to see your enthusiasm for teaching _as well as learning_ Also big 👍 to everyone at WSU for inviting you into their lab. Hopefully it will drive some awareness/involvement/sponsorship And _of course_ props to Dassault for supporting you
5:02 I was apart of a competition in Minnesota similar to this when I was in high school called the Supermileage Challenge I didn’t know there was a competition like this at the college level 🤓
Did SAE mini Baja for a few years in college. Another good one. That event is challenging to engineer for because the loading conditions are.... highly variable. Where mini-formula has more predictable inputs.
It’s definitely comparing apples to oranges here though. A lot of the Baja members at my university are good friends of mine. While I love Baja SAE, overall it’s a much simpler competition. However that’s not bad, it forces you to get creative to optimize something that’s already simple. The members on our BAJA team are super smart and they’ve made some incredible advancements at comp. In comparison FSAE is much more related to industry where you have a much larger range of manufacturing methods, FEA scenarios and testing cases. While Baja has a lot of sporadic forces, FSAE has very intense forces, pulling a high G corner in a braking zone puts 1000 lbs through the AFT member of the front lower control arm. Not to even mention the engine complexities of FSAE. Building, wiring, tuning is just the start. Both competitions are incredibly different and have different scopes. BAJA is more of a race and FSAE is more of a design based comp.
Excellent video, Jeremy! The FSAE program has to be one of the coolest hands-on Motorsports development programs. As someone who’s been a driving in junior formula championships around the world, I’ve been able to see how the engineers extracts hundredths of a second out a mostly SPEC car (no customization allowed other than basics suspension setup). What these students are doing is much more similar to a Formula 1 team which has much more regulatory freedom to develop bespoke components. Watching a small group of students develop, test, and actually COMPETE while also managing sponsorship $ is truly inspiring, and I hope more people take notice of how valuable these programs are. Fantastic video!
I worked for a baseball bat manufacturer, and my best friend is still there as an engineer (and has been there for like, 20 years now). We still spend so much time talking about all the engineering that goes into making something that is as seemingly simple as a composite baseball bat...I can't imagine what goes into an actual machine like this.
I gotta say I always love your perspective on engineering, The details matter sure, but the real world process is what distinguishes it from dry technicality, and shows it as a more organic art of balance and technique. I firmly agree that that's where the joy and passion in any profession resides.
Districts in Texas that offer the Engineering track Diploma need to see the excitement and enthusiasm here. My son is getting disappointed at his HS because many of the machines are broken and aren't being repaired timely or at all. How about letting the kids troubleshoot, locate parts, and price like a real-world scenario. Most of this could be done online, not affecting business personnel, but gaining so much for these kids in experience. Or use this as a design change/betterment to create/adapt new parts. Love this viseo series and will share with my sons to see what awaits them for college experience. Great job, Jeremy, students, and supporters.
I am glad that I joined my university's FSAE team. The knowledge that I have gained by going through the design and engineering process on our car has been paramount.
It's a world wide competition and chances are if you know any technical university, they probably have a team! And most of them have days where they can be visited. Greetings from the team of the technical university of Berlin :D Fun to see some more US teams
I spent most of my time, every year of my engineering undergrad on car teams. Definitely one of the most valuable time investments during undergrad for me.
Long time viewer checking in to say an extra special thank you for this video. My HS senior is interested in mechanical engineering and trying to navigate the college selection and application process, and your channel in general but this video in specific has been a great companion to the college tours he’s taken. The tours are great but can’t compare to this kind of deep dive and contextualization. He’s been fabricating an electric sport motorcycle from scratch which has been an awesome project with tons of “a taste of engineering” moments and opportunities, but connecting the dots from that to what it might be like for him to pursue engineering degree has been hard for me find a way to help provide. Thank goodness for your channel and videos of yours like this one! ❤
Thank you Jeremy, for again igniting the fire, life is just bombarding me at every corner, but for videos like this, reinvigorates me to continue moving forward. Keep up the good work
It's so crazy, a couple of buddies and myself came up with a business that put a new spin on go kart racing. But I wanted to take it a step further as to make it place of high learning for the youth. They would learn the basics of mechanics, electronics, business finance, management, the whole nine. The idea and concept became so big in my head it scared me. But watching this refreshes the idea. Thanks for sharing this.
I teach at a local tech college in welding. our school really pushes for industry partners, we have Lincoln Electric, machine shop has akuma, and now Haus. it's an amazing difference in education we offer to students, and staff. we also partner with local universities. more industries need to help out local colleges.
So glad to see you highlight the FSAE org. I captained the university of Utah team in 1999. It is still one of the highlights of my professional career.
I was the President of The University of Wyoming’s SAE club from 1998-2000. I currently work at Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita and started my career at Cessna in Wichita. This is a cool video. I am looking forward to the rest of the series.
I was an engineering student at Cal Poly SLO in the early 70s. I had a huge interest in auto racing. My automotive career spanned 45 years. One of my areas of expertise in my time in NASCAR was air box design and fabrication. You only get out what you can put in.
In the mid 70’s I was fortunate to attend a school (Wentworth,in Boston) that values hands on, practical experience. A graduation requirement was to have completed at least 2 semesters of CoOp, where students worked full time in the field. I learned a TON of stuff that I would never have learned in a lecture hall and I’m sure that it made me a more rounded, practical engineer. In my career, I’ve been able to employ and mentor CoOp students and I made sure that by the time they went back to school they knew which end of a file to hold and how to drill two holes in the right place. One of my success stories was a very intelligent kid who did well, but who surprised me when he changed his major after his CoOp. Learning that your major isn’t really your best choice is worth learning!
Graduated from the University of Connecticut, was extremly impressed by the FSAE team there and spent some time working on the car as a civil major helping with some strucural components. It really impressive how the club can bring together so many majors (we also had buisness, communication, etc. majors helping with sponsors, event planning, logistics, etc.) On the civil side, I'd suggets looking into Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge. ASCE puts them on each year, and they are similarly design based competitions. Was a great experience for me!
As a recent graduate(South Dakota Mines, Mechanical Engineering) who is now working in the heavy truck industry as a test engineer... I mainly did Baja SAE but worked a lot with the Formula guys at my school to do vehicle dynamics and composite work. I can whole-heartedly say SAE teams are what got me a job and got me a jump start on the things I do for work. These teams need more visibility from engineering departments! Luckily I found a school that supported the teams pretty well, but the teams available and the support they get should be major features of school searches for engineering students! Thanks for covering this stuff!
I am glad to hear that these engineers was using SI units when explaining the dimensions of the parts. I was expecting them using freedom units. Thanks for video btw, learned a lot.
Wait, whoa. Did you actually just give me an advertisement that I genuinely found both helpful and surprising. Jeremy you can’t just go around doing that
Loved this video Jeremy! Made me feel nostalgic. I was part of the Chalmers Formula student team in Sweden 10 years ago. It was both the best and worst thing that I have ever done - Best in terms of hands on learning on a wide variety of engineering and management topics, and seeing many aspects of a product all the way from a paper sketch to a running vehicle winning a competition. And worst in terms of the sheer number of hours of work put in. 10 years later I can say that even in industry one does not get the opportunity to learn such a wide variety of topics, or see all aspects of a product from concept sketch to it's utilisation.
Rarely do I watch a 26 minute video on YT and wish it were longer, so your saying there will be a part two was a very welcome thing. I wish I'd known about programs like Formula SAE back when I was in high school and deciding what I wanted to go to school for, and where. While I took a few engineering classes they were all theoretical/book heavy snoozefests and lacked demonstratable real world application of concepts. Something more hands-on like this would have probably kept me from changing majors.
What I think comes off unstated is that the best way to learn engineering is to *solve an actual problem*. Pretty much every piece of math, computer science, and physics that I learned in high school by being forced to complete page after page of homework problem quietly slide right out of my brain. Formulas and concepts I actually remember and can use are the ones I gradually needed to find to answer a specific programing or manufacturing task that was the next stage in building an actual thing that solves a real-world problem.
Awesome video! I graduated from VT with an Aerospace degree. A lot of people I knew were always heavily involved with the FSAE group. It is cool stuff!
Back in my university I did FSAE and hands down best years and technical learning I did while working my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Shoutout to San Jose State University Spartan Racing #1 team in this side of the West Coast and California
Jeremy, the WSU, & SAE Teams are IMPRESSIVE! You and I are alike - getting that GIDDY, CHILDLIKE PASSION with our push to lifelong learning! I would enjoy this type of visit. There's nothing more remarkable about meeting new people and having them SHOW OFF what they do - their ENTHUSIASM is CONTAGIOUS. As always, THANK YOU for sharing your passion, skills, experience, and knowledge.
I’m part of a FSAE and a VEXU Team. There are also a number of other engineering competitions for student. For example: Nova Rover, Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS), RoboCup, VEXU, Spaceport America Cup & Sailbot. All worth having a look at.
FSAE was one of the biggest factors in my college decision. I have worked with so many Mechanical engineers who know nothing of how the parts they design are manufactured, held together and perform it is mind blowing.
Taking the step(s) from design to physical product (and the many feed back loops) is very educational -- just ask anyone who has done it. This is why many trades have apprenticeships -- what is theoretically possible is not always physically possible. This is a great video!
I love the questions and answers but more interesting is the way people behave and react to certain areas of interests, there is a lot of personal psychology in itself, and if we also understand this as good as we may try to understand real engineering, we can make real magic. A single person with the right knowledge and particular area of expertise can make wonders, but a team of people on the same frequency, the sky is the limit.
I’m well over 10 years out of my mech e degree and formula sae program, but I still recall many hard-learned lessons and practical applications from that race car. Everything from constraining an fea properly to applying bernoulli principle to a fuel injection system. fsae is probably still the best application of an ME degree that a student can get.
There are Baja competitions and Solar car competitions too! Then there's human powered vehicle (bikes when I was in college). All engineering students should work on a competition team, or other team that actually builds something.
I'm part of Hornet Racing at CSU: Sacramento and not to look down on Matt, but his question about NOS is very common and similar to questions we receive from people who do not know what the competiton is about. No doubt the powertrain lead and other members have heard those types of questions before and have almost a scriped response. I'm glad no one asked the infamous "Can I drive it?" Anyone who is part of an FSAE team knows that all too well. But overall, this is a good intro to what FSAE is about and how it helps engineers become better. There is so much more to talk about, but its impossible to put it all in a 20 min video. I love it when engineering/math/physics youtubers go tour around college campuses and show how much is going on behind the closed doors. This really shows how many oppourtunities exist for those who are interested in hands on experiences and not just graded classes.
Yeah. ABET the accrediting body for engineering programs made a significant design build test experience a requirement in the early 2000s, which is terrific. But you're 100% right that providing a decent one is way more expensive than textbooks. Think millions. Eg that building did not fall from the sky. Some of the increases in college costs are for bona fide reasons.
I Just started watching but I’ve got to say that I love your channel and everything you put out there. You’re a good man and I appreciate you. Blessings, Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸
When you started listing all the classes.. oh that brought me back.. biochem major here. Took calc 1, 2, and 3.. physics with calc 1 and 2.. quantitative analysis.. calc 2 and 3 were like wtf is going on..and now, sadly, I just never use it
I do FSAE down in Florida at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, going into my 3rd year on the team. FSAE changed my world. I wasn’t even particularly interested in race cars at first, but this competition just sucks you in to an almost addicting degree. Come check us out if you’re ever in Daytona Beach!
This was great insight to see, I’m About to start university at Oxford Brookes over here in the UK doing formula student (Europe equivalent) honestly can’t wait 🙂
17:30 I feel that. I was thinking how funding might be an issue, but then I thought about how the prices of those books are already rather high. Maybe increasing the efficiency/lowering the price of college-related fees might help to make this more plausible... maybe even add another charge to further help fund it? Not sure how engineering classes are funded and the like as I am still several years off from those courses :c
The race cars that they make battle against a ton of other schools. I forget the event they all have but it's a big one I seen a few videos of a while back. A few schools are using A.I. computer learning to design entire race cars.
hi good what you started and suspension geometry is complicated stuff here. so let see how you look at that, you said something about 3D experience and i like it.
I would LOVE to have a conversation about this with you. I would imagine you've likewise never heard of the Maker Faire's "Power Racing Series" which has all the same challenges with a budget of merely $500. Also having 30+ pages of rules to follow, the cars start with Power Wheels type of car (kids toy, yeah) .
Very interesting. I know that most STEM Ph.D. programs have or are increasing their emphasis on entrepreneurship even ot the extent of encouraging students to spin off companies. Again, you learn best by doing. Thanks for sharing, Jeremy. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series.
Yes, because those programs want to attach their name to their students' success. Most are not innovating and need the student to labor and create for them. It isn't difficult to understand how universities profit and use their students.
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I am a member of and the technical director at one of the FSAE teams here in Canada, FormuleETS. This year, we won the Electrical Vehicle competition at FSAE Michigan and participated in 3 European competitions. If you're ever in Montreal, you should swing by and take a look at the shop and the car!
Saw you at FS Alpe Adria in Croatia. Y'all did some insane speeds on that endurance course
That's awesome. I'm a student still in high school but this is so cool!
whoaa ETS? Saw your guys' car in Michigan 2022 was pretty sweet
The Invitation is also open from your Indian FSAE viewers, our team, Team Fateh recently secured the second overall position in SUPRA SAE India.
ETS has a great history in a lot of SAE competitions, definitely a great school to visit, they really do some killer cars and gives great design presentations
So cool to see this happening. I so missed the boat in school. Zero career counselling in school and have only found machining and 'making' now that I have adult money.
This was a great amount of exposure to FSAE. I'm the Chief Engineer and Chassis Lead up north of Wichita, in Manhattan, at Kansas State University. These guys are great. NIAR actually is one of our big sponsors, they help us cure our composite monocoque. It's been such a valuable experience for me and many of my other colleagues on the team.
Our children need more "hands-on" experience to help better understand what they have learned!
I would tend to agree. I learned a lot of hands on from my dad, who wasn't afraid to try things that others might not have tried before. Presently, I have a garden tractor I'm building that has parts not necessarily related to agriculture, but work together well. My engine is a Honda 13hp 2 cylinder from a riding mower, my transaxle is from a hydrostatic Cub Cadet, my rear fender pan and steering tower are John Deere, my front axle is modified from a golf cart, my steering is hydraulic and is from a forklift, the grill is from a Ford LGT tractor, the hood is yet to be determined, but will likely be just diamond plate fabricated, and the frame is 2x2x1/4" box tube. It's taken more time than I initially planned, but the distance from my house to my shop has increased, which is something I'm working on now.
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I did engineering for a year in 1967. My grades were OK, but it was so academic. The turn point came for me when I asked one of my mech engineering profs what could be causing a problem of camshaft spalling on my race bike. When he answered effectively ‘how would I know’, that was it for me and I transferred the next year. If we’d had something like this, I would have been overjoyed
Employers love seeing membership in teams like this on resumes. It demonstrates that you've solved real-world problems.
Wait so this is a hobby for these guys? Do they get paid for this?
We are looking forward to go to school every day, just because there is a group of people we love.
Its awesome to see how far you've come since the first video i saw of you making things from washing machines years ago. You really are an awesome teacher and im thankful for everything you share.
This is great!!! I like how these young people are using their theoretical knowledge of engineering to make a product. You learn SOOOOOO much about engineering by using 3D cad, manufacturing parts, assemblies, how other disciplines get involved and the key thing, communication.
Students should also learn how to use tools so that they design things that can be made. These interactions with machinists and fabricators can be eye opening. Sometimes subtle differences can have profound impacts.
Like America's National Treasure Dr. Thomas Sowell said: There are no solutions, just trade-offs. Keep up the good work, Jeremy! Aloha
I was the Mechanical Lead on the World Solar Challenge for UMR in the 90's. We raced our solar cockroach up the US and Australia. We finished mid-field, which was encouraging. We had to pass road-train tests to run on highways in Australia. I used Finite Element Analysis to develop the space frame for the solar car, which was pressurized to compensate for the thin-wall tubing (after having to learn how to weld it) and won a research grant for FEA space frames.
It's nice to see the future engineers be excited about learning. I can understand hands-on being a whole lot better than just being in books. Thanks for sharing this piece...it's very encouraging! Shalom!
Graduated from Wichita State in 2022 with an Aerospace Engineering degree and worked three years in the Robotics and Automation Lab at NIAR. Great coverage of the FSAE team here; had a few friends in the club and recognized a few of the guys in the video from all my evenings walking the Halls of the EEB (now John Bardo Center). Knowledgeable and dedicated group of guys like most WSU engineers.
Nice coverage of the gem of engineering education. I graduated out of the U of Toronto's mech eng program back in 2008 and did FSAE my entire time there. Outside of just having the experience to bond and work with your team mates and travel to the competition, the practical aspect of FSAE gives us the experience to hit the ground running, not just from engineering or CAE aspect, but also practical experiences like manufacturing methods and machining and all that. I think it really gives a fresh engineer perspective on how something can be made and if the methods makes sense or feasible. I am working as an engineer in automotive in Michigan and still volunteer for the competition every year. Seeing the students do their thing every year is always a treat.
Love to see your enthusiasm for teaching _as well as learning_
Also big 👍 to everyone at WSU for inviting you into their lab. Hopefully it will drive some awareness/involvement/sponsorship
And _of course_ props to Dassault for supporting you
5:02 I was apart of a competition in Minnesota similar to this when I was in high school called the Supermileage Challenge
I didn’t know there was a competition like this at the college level 🤓
Did SAE mini Baja for a few years in college. Another good one. That event is challenging to engineer for because the loading conditions are.... highly variable. Where mini-formula has more predictable inputs.
It’s definitely comparing apples to oranges here though. A lot of the Baja members at my university are good friends of mine. While I love Baja SAE, overall it’s a much simpler competition. However that’s not bad, it forces you to get creative to optimize something that’s already simple. The members on our BAJA team are super smart and they’ve made some incredible advancements at comp.
In comparison FSAE is much more related to industry where you have a much larger range of manufacturing methods, FEA scenarios and testing cases. While Baja has a lot of sporadic forces, FSAE has very intense forces, pulling a high G corner in a braking zone puts 1000 lbs through the AFT member of the front lower control arm. Not to even mention the engine complexities of FSAE. Building, wiring, tuning is just the start.
Both competitions are incredibly different and have different scopes. BAJA is more of a race and FSAE is more of a design based comp.
Excellent video, Jeremy! The FSAE program has to be one of the coolest hands-on Motorsports development programs.
As someone who’s been a driving in junior formula championships around the world, I’ve been able to see how the engineers extracts hundredths of a second out a mostly SPEC car (no customization allowed other than basics suspension setup).
What these students are doing is much more similar to a Formula 1 team which has much more regulatory freedom to develop bespoke components.
Watching a small group of students develop, test, and actually COMPETE while also managing sponsorship $ is truly inspiring, and I hope more people take notice of how valuable these programs are. Fantastic video!
I worked for a baseball bat manufacturer, and my best friend is still there as an engineer (and has been there for like, 20 years now).
We still spend so much time talking about all the engineering that goes into making something that is as seemingly simple as a composite baseball bat...I can't imagine what goes into an actual machine like this.
I gotta say I always love your perspective on engineering, The details matter sure, but the real world process is what distinguishes it from dry technicality, and shows it as a more organic art of balance and technique. I firmly agree that that's where the joy and passion in any profession resides.
Unfortunately I'm not an engineer, but I love this stuff so much.
Neither am I,n yet here we are,it's just exiting
@@andrewmutavi590you can still dream right? It just goes to show, education isn't a commodity, it seems to be a luxury :(
Districts in Texas that offer the Engineering track Diploma need to see the excitement and enthusiasm here. My son is getting disappointed at his HS because many of the machines are broken and aren't being repaired timely or at all. How about letting the kids troubleshoot, locate parts, and price like a real-world scenario. Most of this could be done online, not affecting business personnel, but gaining so much for these kids in experience. Or use this as a design change/betterment to create/adapt new parts. Love this viseo series and will share with my sons to see what awaits them for college experience. Great job, Jeremy, students, and supporters.
@JEREMY FIELDING NYIT SAE TEAM. OLD WESTBURY NY. 2006-2014 LOVED ALL THOSE YEARS.
That is super cool. I am so glad some places are actually doing school right.
I am glad that I joined my university's FSAE team. The knowledge that I have gained by going through the design and engineering process on our car has been paramount.
It's a world wide competition and chances are if you know any technical university, they probably have a team! And most of them have days where they can be visited. Greetings from the team of the technical university of Berlin :D Fun to see some more US teams
Such professionalism and depth of understanding from students! This is very inspiring, our future is bright!
“A single source of truth”; Amen, brother!
A friend of mine was one of the judges for the SAE competition. Love your channel, absolutely awesome! Thanks
I spent most of my time, every year of my engineering undergrad on car teams. Definitely one of the most valuable time investments during undergrad for me.
Long time viewer checking in to say an extra special thank you for this video. My HS senior is interested in mechanical engineering and trying to navigate the college selection and application process, and your channel in general but this video in specific has been a great companion to the college tours he’s taken. The tours are great but can’t compare to this kind of deep dive and contextualization. He’s been fabricating an electric sport motorcycle from scratch which has been an awesome project with tons of “a taste of engineering” moments and opportunities, but connecting the dots from that to what it might be like for him to pursue engineering degree has been hard for me find a way to help provide. Thank goodness for your channel and videos of yours like this one! ❤
the local Uni's SAE team sometimes comes to the Autocross events I go to.
they always win, even while barely trying.
I am a training as a motorsport engineer, always liked your videos even if they are a little unrelated but now it’s perfect!
I wish there was a "heart" instead of just a "thumbs up". I was part of multiple SAE teams in college. Thanks for doing this!
Thank you Jeremy, for again igniting the fire, life is just bombarding me at every corner, but for videos like this, reinvigorates me to continue moving forward. Keep up the good work
Absolutely fantastic, nothing like this existed when I attended college.
It's so crazy, a couple of buddies and myself came up with a business that put a new spin on go kart racing. But I wanted to take it a step further as to make it place of high learning for the youth. They would learn the basics of mechanics, electronics, business finance, management, the whole nine. The idea and concept became so big in my head it scared me. But watching this refreshes the idea. Thanks for sharing this.
I teach at a local tech college in welding. our school really pushes for industry partners, we have Lincoln Electric, machine shop has akuma, and now Haus. it's an amazing difference in education we offer to students, and staff. we also partner with local universities. more industries need to help out local colleges.
Okuma. Haas.
Excellent video. I absolutely loved it and was grinning from ear to ear the entire time. Truly contagious positivity.
I work at NIAR ASTEC (Digital Twin Program). Really excited to see that Jeremy came by!
So glad to see you highlight the FSAE org. I captained the university of Utah team in 1999. It is still one of the highlights of my professional career.
I was the President of The University of Wyoming’s SAE club from 1998-2000. I currently work at Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita and started my career at Cessna in Wichita. This is a cool video. I am looking forward to the rest of the series.
I was an engineering student at Cal Poly SLO in the early 70s. I had a huge interest in auto racing. My automotive career spanned 45 years. One of my areas of expertise in my time in NASCAR was air box design and fabrication. You only get out what you can put in.
Great to see some love towards FSAE. It was one of the most intensive, challenging, and learning provoking things I did in college.
Brilliant video. When they hit the throttle, and my Man heard that "WAAAMP!", his reaction was pure dna.
In the mid 70’s I was fortunate to attend a school (Wentworth,in Boston) that values hands on, practical experience. A graduation requirement was to have completed at least 2 semesters of CoOp, where students worked full time in the field. I learned a TON of stuff that I would never have learned in a lecture hall and I’m sure that it made me a more rounded, practical engineer. In my career, I’ve been able to employ and mentor CoOp students and I made sure that by the time they went back to school they knew which end of a file to hold and how to drill two holes in the right place.
One of my success stories was a very intelligent kid who did well, but who surprised me when he changed his major after his CoOp. Learning that your major isn’t really your best choice is worth learning!
Thank you for this video. This is exactly the type of hands-on environment we need to provide for our students.
Graduated from the University of Connecticut, was extremly impressed by the FSAE team there and spent some time working on the car as a civil major helping with some strucural components. It really impressive how the club can bring together so many majors (we also had buisness, communication, etc. majors helping with sponsors, event planning, logistics, etc.)
On the civil side, I'd suggets looking into Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge. ASCE puts them on each year, and they are similarly design based competitions. Was a great experience for me!
Great video. I love how you smile and how passionate you are. That really comes across and makes people watch more of you videos. Kudos
As a recent graduate(South Dakota Mines, Mechanical Engineering) who is now working in the heavy truck industry as a test engineer... I mainly did Baja SAE but worked a lot with the Formula guys at my school to do vehicle dynamics and composite work. I can whole-heartedly say SAE teams are what got me a job and got me a jump start on the things I do for work. These teams need more visibility from engineering departments! Luckily I found a school that supported the teams pretty well, but the teams available and the support they get should be major features of school searches for engineering students! Thanks for covering this stuff!
Good to see how they talk to each other.
I am glad to hear that these engineers was using SI units when explaining the dimensions of the parts. I was expecting them using freedom units. Thanks for video btw, learned a lot.
Engineering school has come a long way since I graduated in 1974. Our engineering projects were prehistoric compared to this. Thank you for sharing.
Wait, whoa. Did you actually just give me an advertisement that I genuinely found both helpful and surprising. Jeremy you can’t just go around doing that
Loved this video Jeremy! Made me feel nostalgic.
I was part of the Chalmers Formula student team in Sweden 10 years ago. It was both the best and worst thing that I have ever done - Best in terms of hands on learning on a wide variety of engineering and management topics, and seeing many aspects of a product all the way from a paper sketch to a running vehicle winning a competition. And worst in terms of the sheer number of hours of work put in.
10 years later I can say that even in industry one does not get the opportunity to learn such a wide variety of topics, or see all aspects of a product from concept sketch to it's utilisation.
Man, you are living the dream. What a great program.
Thanks for the video, it's nice to see how each team plays in building something as cool as a race car.
Rarely do I watch a 26 minute video on YT and wish it were longer, so your saying there will be a part two was a very welcome thing.
I wish I'd known about programs like Formula SAE back when I was in high school and deciding what I wanted to go to school for, and where. While I took a few engineering classes they were all theoretical/book heavy snoozefests and lacked demonstratable real world application of concepts. Something more hands-on like this would have probably kept me from changing majors.
What I think comes off unstated is that the best way to learn engineering is to *solve an actual problem*.
Pretty much every piece of math, computer science, and physics that I learned in high school by being forced to complete page after page of homework problem quietly slide right out of my brain. Formulas and concepts I actually remember and can use are the ones I gradually needed to find to answer a specific programing or manufacturing task that was the next stage in building an actual thing that solves a real-world problem.
I helped design a tail wing for UMR's go-kart team. We achieved 400 lbs of down force at 60 mph, which I think is mind-boggling.
Awesome video! I graduated from VT with an Aerospace degree. A lot of people I knew were always heavily involved with the FSAE group. It is cool stuff!
colleges here in germany often have projects just like this. but they are electric.
Back in my university I did FSAE and hands down best years and technical learning I did while working my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Shoutout to San Jose State University Spartan Racing #1 team in this side of the West Coast and California
Jeremy, the WSU, & SAE Teams are IMPRESSIVE!
You and I are alike - getting that GIDDY, CHILDLIKE PASSION with our push to lifelong learning!
I would enjoy this type of visit. There's nothing more remarkable about meeting new people and having them SHOW OFF what they do - their ENTHUSIASM is CONTAGIOUS.
As always, THANK YOU for sharing your passion, skills, experience, and knowledge.
Leading and being part of a FSAE team in college was a wonderful experience.
Yes, yes and yes. Hands on for me is best. I believe kinostetic learning is the term.
I’m part of a FSAE and a VEXU Team. There are also a number of other engineering competitions for student. For example: Nova Rover, Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS), RoboCup, VEXU, Spaceport America Cup & Sailbot. All worth having a look at.
We have the same program for formula SAE at University of Florida. Designed and built by the students and raced by the students. Very cool to see.
FSAE was one of the biggest factors in my college decision. I have worked with so many Mechanical engineers who know nothing of how the parts they design are manufactured, held together and perform it is mind blowing.
Taking the step(s) from design to physical product (and the many feed back loops) is very educational -- just ask anyone who has done it. This is why many trades have apprenticeships -- what is theoretically possible is not always physically possible. This is a great video!
I love the questions and answers but more interesting is the way people behave and react to certain areas of interests, there is a lot of personal psychology in itself, and if we also understand this as good as we may try to understand real engineering, we can make real magic. A single person with the right knowledge and particular area of expertise can make wonders, but a team of people on the same frequency, the sky is the limit.
I’m well over 10 years out of my mech e degree and formula sae program, but I still recall many hard-learned lessons and practical applications from that race car. Everything from constraining an fea properly to applying bernoulli principle to a fuel injection system.
fsae is probably still the best application of an ME degree that a student can get.
There are Baja competitions and Solar car competitions too!
Then there's human powered vehicle (bikes when I was in college). All engineering students should work on a competition team, or other team that actually builds something.
Great video Jeremy, wish you could've brought a few that looked like you along.
Love your channel and how you approach engineering.
Although after may never hug, but still thank once hug to each other.
Jay the Florida pool pump motor repair guy. When Service Calls Longwood approved ! that was good info 2 see👨🔧good job Jeremy F
The rules set a multiplier of 1.7 to the any engine that is not naturally aspirated, which limited displacement to 417.65cc.
Awesome video Jeremy. I reached out to Dane to see if our local company can help as a corporate sponsor. Keep up the great content!
I'm part of Hornet Racing at CSU: Sacramento and not to look down on Matt, but his question about NOS is very common and similar to questions we receive from people who do not know what the competiton is about. No doubt the powertrain lead and other members have heard those types of questions before and have almost a scriped response. I'm glad no one asked the infamous "Can I drive it?" Anyone who is part of an FSAE team knows that all too well. But overall, this is a good intro to what FSAE is about and how it helps engineers become better. There is so much more to talk about, but its impossible to put it all in a 20 min video. I love it when engineering/math/physics youtubers go tour around college campuses and show how much is going on behind the closed doors. This really shows how many oppourtunities exist for those who are interested in hands on experiences and not just graded classes.
This hits me in all the feels!
i saw yesterday the ETH car. Its amazing. 0-60mph in 0.965s. Its electric with all wheels with hubmotors. Crazy engineering.
I honestly can’t despise the new RUclips enough. It’s been so long since I’ve had a Jeremy fielding video recommended to me.
Yeah. ABET the accrediting body for engineering programs made a significant design build test experience a requirement in the early 2000s, which is terrific. But you're 100% right that providing a decent one is way more expensive than textbooks. Think millions. Eg that building did not fall from the sky. Some of the increases in college costs are for bona fide reasons.
I Just started watching but I’ve got to say that I love your channel and everything you put out there. You’re a good man and I appreciate you. Blessings, Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸
When you started listing all the classes.. oh that brought me back.. biochem major here. Took calc 1, 2, and 3.. physics with calc 1 and 2.. quantitative analysis.. calc 2 and 3 were like wtf is going on..and now, sadly, I just never use it
Love what you do, good sir. please keep up the great work.
I do FSAE down in Florida at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, going into my 3rd year on the team. FSAE changed my world. I wasn’t even particularly interested in race cars at first, but this competition just sucks you in to an almost addicting degree. Come check us out if you’re ever in Daytona Beach!
Great video! I’ve been considering joining the SAE team at Oregon State. This has sold me!
This was great insight to see, I’m About to start university at Oxford Brookes over here in the UK doing formula student (Europe equivalent) honestly can’t wait 🙂
17:30 I feel that. I was thinking how funding might be an issue, but then I thought about how the prices of those books are already rather high. Maybe increasing the efficiency/lowering the price of college-related fees might help to make this more plausible... maybe even add another charge to further help fund it? Not sure how engineering classes are funded and the like as I am still several years off from those courses :c
The race cars that they make battle against a ton of other schools. I forget the event they all have but it's a big one I seen a few videos of a while back. A few schools are using A.I. computer learning to design entire race cars.
Super cool, wish there were more of these programs.
Formula Student was the best part of my bachelor's. It made me into what I am today. #FSlife #FormulaStudent
hi good what you started and suspension geometry is complicated stuff here. so let see how you look at that, you said something about 3D experience and i like it.
I would LOVE to have a conversation about this with you.
I would imagine you've likewise never heard of the Maker Faire's "Power Racing Series" which has all the same challenges with a budget of merely $500. Also having 30+ pages of rules to follow, the cars start with Power Wheels type of car (kids toy, yeah) .
Is building loudspeakers. You learn everything from statics to signal theory. And you get to rock out afterwards.
Very interesting. I know that most STEM Ph.D. programs have or are increasing their emphasis on entrepreneurship even ot the extent of encouraging students to spin off companies. Again, you learn best by doing. Thanks for sharing, Jeremy. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series.
Yes, because those programs want to attach their name to their students' success. Most are not innovating and need the student to labor and create for them. It isn't difficult to understand how universities profit and use their students.
You should check out Baja SAE. Michigan did very well this last season.
@Jeremy... Nice synopsis... Keep pushing onward