{"id":97814,"date":"2019-06-10T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=97814"},"modified":"2020-01-13T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:17:54","slug":"sae-car-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/10\/sae-car-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa engineering team revs up for car competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_10491\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7d_vC4J0z-U?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"UH M\u0101noa engineering team revs up for car competition\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa Rainbow Warrior car racing team from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a> made last-minute tweaks and test runs before the vehicle was shipped to Nebraska for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sae.org\/attend\/student-events\/formula-sae-lincoln\/\">2019 International Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (<abbr>SAE<\/abbr>) Collegiate Design Competition<\/a>. The team received an extra boost from <abbr title=\"United Parcel Service\">UPS<\/abbr> Hawaii. The company is transporting the vehicle to and from Honolulu and Nebraska, worth an estimated $15,200.\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Formula <abbr>SAE<\/abbr> project is one of a dozen senior design projects offered in the mechanical engineering department,&rdquo; said <strong>Connie Young<\/strong>, team project manager. &ldquo;We design, build and compete a Formula <abbr>SAE<\/abbr> race car.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This the sixth consecutive year the college is participating in the international event. This year\u2019s 80-team field, held from June 19&#8211;22, includes entries from the United States, Mexico, Canada, India and Brazil. More importantly, the team hopes to place higher than last year\u2019s 14th place (out of 115 teams), <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr>\u2019s best ever finish.<\/p>\n<p>The team consists of 21 students, most of whom graduated in spring 2019. They have been meeting since last summer to organize, put together a budget, agree on the benchmarks to design and build the car, and test the end product.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The main thing is that they have a 20 millimeter restrictor, about the size of a dime, and that\u2019s the only thing that can breathe, that\u2019s what limits their speed,&rdquo; said <strong>Zachary Trimble<\/strong>, mechanical engineering associate professor and <abbr>SAE<\/abbr> Formula team advisor. &ldquo;So it really becomes an optimization problem. That\u2019s where the engineering comes in.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to applying theories learned in a classroom since they entered college, the students are also gaining real-life experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You learn more stuff because you have to work with people too and you learn all those dynamics working with other engineers that you cannot learn in the classroom,&rdquo; said team member <strong>Stephen Cadiz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ten team members will travel to Nebraska to compete in the four-day competition. They leave on June 16.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98042\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-sae-car.jpg\" alt=\"race car\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-sae-car.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-sae-car-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/manoa-engineering-sae-car-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> engineering students test their <abbr>SAE<\/abbr> Formula car at Leeward Community College.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ten-member <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Rainbow Warrior car racing team leaves for Nebraska on June 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[179,182,9,56],"class_list":["post-97814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97814"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98214,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97814\/revisions\/98214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}