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About Aggies Off-Road Racing Development

Building Essentail Skills
Aggies Off-Road Racing Development is a collegiate team focused on helping upcoming engineers find the sport in engineering as well as provide structured professional development.
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Competitive Engineering

The Baja series SAE competition is a professional collegiate competition where over 100 teams design, build, and race off-road vehicles in several events including a 3 hour endurance race. As a team, we work to create a durable and efficient vehicle that is robust, agile, and fast. Teams like Aggies Off-Road Racing Development work on everything from the frame and suspension to the drivetrain and safety features, testing and refining the design along the way.Success in Baja SAE relies on a strong framework of organization where each member has a role to uphold, whether in design, testing, or manufacturing. Effective leadership and scheduling are instrumental in teams like AORD reaching the competition and remaining competititve.
Lessons Learned
Aggies Off-Road Racing Developmet is a young engineering club on Colorado State Universities campus. For me this has meant that alot of the problem solving still needs to be done and planning around that takes a large ammount of time and effort that needs to be scheduled.
Cost Estimate
The overall budget for a cart of this size could be up to 25000 dollars. In AORD's case we work with a limited budget of about 8000 dollars. this is split into quarters for competition fees, travel costs, manufacturing materials, and tools needed to complete the project.
Efficency Improvement Proposal
To improve the efficency of this projcet we have implemented and used several methods to directly specify what each person does on the team. this has helped us avoid confusion and mistakes when approacing separate problems as well as work in parrallel with each other.
Mass Production Cost Estimate
To mass produce this vehicle, at about 10000 units it would cost approximately 80,000,000 dollars. This could likely be reduced when factoring in economies of scale as the cost of the materials to make the final product would be notably less expensive.
Cell Phone
401-477-3311
Location
East Greenwich, RI Fort Collins, CO
Hours
Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm MST

Email
Kurt.Sims@colostate.edu
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