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A QUARTERLY NEWS PUBLICATION FROM SRI VISHNU EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY
A RECAPITULATION
The Baja SAE Competition originated at the University of South
Carolina in 1976, under the supervision of Dr. J. F. Stevens.
Baja SAE is an intercollegiate engineering design competition
for undergraduate and graduate engineering students. The
objective of the competition is to simulate real-world
engineering design projects and their related challenges. Each
team is competing to have its design accepted for manufacture
by a fictitious firm. The students must function as a team to
design, build, test, promote and compete with a vehicle within
the limits of the rules, also to generate financial support for
their project and manage their educational priorities.
Each team's goal is to design and build a prototype of a rugged,
single seat, off-road recreational vehicle intended for sale
to the non-professional weekend off-road enthusiast. The
vehicle must be safe, easily transported, easily maintained
and fun to drive. It should be able to negotiate rough terrain
without damage. As of 2010, the SAE Baja Series consisted of
three competitions, though in the past there had been as many
as seven sanctioned events. A Baja SAE competition event
happens for three to four days.
ZIBA RACERS
AN EMERGING YOUNG TEAM:
Team ZIBA Racers started its journey in 2015 with a team of 14
enthusiastic girls exhibiting good teamwork and perseverance
which helped the team clear the virtual round in the very first
attempt. This was the only women's team from SOUTH INDIA. It
is always a herculean task for any team to clear the virtual
round in its first attempt. ZIBA Racers achieved it by their
unswerving determination to win. The team achieved this feat
by competing with 395 teams and moved to dynamic round.
In the dynamic round, the team successfully finished the
technical inspection, acceleration test, brake test and
finally stood in an endurance test. Though it was a new
entrant, it gave tough completion to the other teams. The
result was that the team was successful in getting a decent
score. This story is all about the ZIBA Racers last year's
scintillating performance in their debut.
ZIBA RACERS – THIS YEAR
Inspired by last year's great attempt, the team is going ahead
with great energies in order to outsmart other teams. In its
attempt this year, the team has participated in the virtual
round which has been held at Chirst University, Bengaluru. 415
teams from all over India have attended it. The teams are from
teams NITs, IITs and BITS colleges.
Out of 415 teams, there are 3 women teams and ZIBA Racers is
ranked 2nd among all women teams in India. The team has got
70th rank in its virtual round. ZIBA Racers have bagged 1st
place in Andhra Pradesh and has got 3rd rank in both Andhra
Pradesh and Telangana.
This is the second time that Team ZIBA Racers is participating
in SAE BAJA 2017. From the last year's experience, they have
learned many new techniques and this time they have come up
with new design learning lessons from its mistakes. This year
TEAM Ziba Racers has 18 girls who are going to participate in
SAE Baja representing the whole South India.
Now the vehicle is under manufacturing process and the team is
working restlessly day and night to build its car with a new
avatar of perfection. From the starting of sketch of design,
to the end of body framework everything is being handled by
these 18 girls. More than half of the vehicle has been finished
and will be ready for the competition by January 2017. The
approaching February will be the memorable month for the team
since it is participating in BAJA SAE 2017 for 6 continuous
days at Phitampur Indore.