University of Windsor SAE Lancers Baja: September 2005

SAE Women Team Leaders Award

Visit the following link to read up on details about the $1000 Award for SAE teams with women which was mentioned today at todays meeting.

SAE Women Team Leaders

Chris Kelly

Ratification/ Web Update

Currently we are putting together all documentation to submit to the UWSA to ratify our team. The plan is to have ratification sheets submitted by the early next week.

Today we recieved our login id for the website and we will soon begin to upload our website. Which is currently under construction. The content layout has been put together, graphics (buttons and and animations) are currently under construction as well. Look for more updates soon.

Tonight we will be attending the 4th year weekly meeting at 5:30pm.

Chris Kelly

Adams Software

Well I did a little search online today and I found this really neat. If you visit this first link you will notice that a former University of Windsor Mini Baja Member has his ADAM's animation on the companies website. Thats very neat Congratuations Steve Reis.

MSC Software (Adams Website)
Steve's Video
Very Cool Animation

You might also like to know that as an SAE Mini Baja Team you can get free software for 120 days. Vist the following link

Free Software (Notice Steve has a few more videos here)

Enjoy

The 4th Year Team -- > Our Mentors

The current plan for this year will not be to build a car of our own. But instead we will focus on assisting the 4th year team. While assisting the 4th year team we look to gain as much knowledge as possible on the components of the car (shocks, cvt, breaks, frame... etc). We feel that gaining this knowledge will prove to be very valuable to us next year. Another very useful skill which we look to hone is our tallent to fully utilize CATIA and ADAMS software. Being able to use these programs can provide one less thing to stress over next year during our full scale project of car designing and building. This will hopefully free up more time for testing next year.

The 4th year team meets on Tuesdays at 5:30pm in the Care Building. All team members are encouraged to attend. One of the main topics on the agenda for Sept 27th is believed to be sponsors/fundrasing.

Webspace/Ratification

Today we submitted and recieved confirmation back from IT Services that we will have a website located on the University Server. Once it is up and running it will be located at

www.minibaja.uwindsor.ca

Also we are currently looking into having our team ratified which would make us an official group approved by UWSA. We are currently reviewing the Clubs Handbook which can be found here.

http://uwsa.ca/clubs/soc-forms.asp

Also here is the link on how to create or form your own team/club at the university.

http://uwsa.ca/clubs/start-club.asp

Check back to see when our website is ready.

SAE Vehicle Design Projects Info Form Required

If you are interested in joining one of the SAE Vehicle Design Teams (Mini Baja, Formula SAE...etc) please download this file. After reviewing the file and filling out all necessary information submit the forms to Dr.Minaker.

University of Windsor SAE_projects_info.pdf

Thank you.

Chris Kelly

Documentation

If you would like to read the rules and regulations Manual for the 2006 Mini Baja Competition click on the link on the right side of this page. Which says Mini Baja Midwest Compeition or Click here. From this website you can access other competition documentiaton like event history as well as a photo gallery. Please feel free to visit this site.

Christopher Kelly

A New Logo On The Way

Just recently I began a design of a new logo. The rough draft has been sketched and Stephanie Masse has applied some coloring by color pencil. You can see this logo on the right as it has been scaned. Today the new design was reviewed by the team and some suggestions were made. Peter Denzinger has recieved a copy of the concept logo and will be editing it in adobe photoshop. He will also look to improve the design.

Christopher Kelly

The Begining of Something New

This Mini Baja Team is looking to gain experience this year. We look to build something new as a team, but by reusing as many parts as possible from previous designs. As a team one of our goals for this year is to gain an understanding of the mini baja compeition and the parts used on the cars. Next year when we enter our 4th year we will be designing a Mini Baja car for our capstone project and we look at this 3rd year challenge as a way to grow and prepare for our 4th year design project.