Mbirt, Apologies for slight derail of thread, although UWA-12 was POTENTIALLY a very good car.
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Claude,
Are you suggesting that FSAE is NOT about producing more knowledgeable Engineers, but rather it is about producing a lot of slick-talking Salesmen and Sycophants? (All of above highlighted skills belong in the Presentation event.)
Specifically, it seems you want to reward dimwits who can repeat parrot-fashion the BS they are taught in VD seminars (eg. see "Damper Rates" thread), but any students showing they have MORE knowledge than their "teachers" will get punished with low marks. Frankly, that is disgraceful!
I took one look at a picture of the UWA-12 undertray and thought "Here are students who have a better understanding of what is important to an FSAE car's performance than I ever thought possible". I certainly would NOT have suggested such a design to the general FSAE population, because it is a country mile ahead of the current standards (waaay beyond what I thought FSAEers could understand).
But the UWA students had to spend "several hours" trying to explain it to you.
Do you now understand how a "longitudinally interconnected suspension" works?
Do you teach it in your seminars?
Or are you the one who deserves the mark of 3/200?
And most importantly, if a team is again in your Design tent and they show they are "more knowledgeable" than you (perhaps because they have another type of advanced suspension that you do not understand), then will you again punish them with such an insultingly low score?
Is that your role as an "educator"???
Z