What do you get credit for???

[Sarsippius]

We are looking at including more of the race car in our course work, im just wondering how much work you do on your car is credited to your course work? esp non final year students. Any help would be great ( ie assignments on the car) for when we go back to our faculty.
Cheers Sarsippius

[Sarsippius]

We are looking at including more of the race car in our course work, im just wondering how much work you do on your car is credited to your course work? esp non final year students. Any help would be great ( ie assignments on the car) for when we go back to our faculty.
Cheers Sarsippius

[woollymoof]

Younger students can do research and design proposals on parts of the car for one of their design subjects in third year. That doesn't mean what ever they do gets on the car, it probably won't the year they do it because it will be past the design freeze.

Final years, if they choose to do the automotive engineering elective can do their reports on the part of the car they are designing.

Final year projects can be done on the car.

[Wilso]

In years past we haven't received any credit for doing the car, it was all extracuricular. This year our advisor is teaching a RaceCar Engineering class where the students do projects that involve research or design of parts of the car. I believe the class counts as technical area elective credit. I'm currently working a Co-op term so I'm not even taking classes so I missed the oppurtunity. But it does leave plenty of time to work on the car without having homework and tests!

[Denny Trimble]

One project that would be great for a non-senior would be an inertia test rig. It takes some time to get the equations right, build the rig, set it up, get data with driver in the car, reduce the data, mathematically remove the unsprung mass for roll & pitch inertia, etc. It's hard for the core team members to get this kind of thing done before competition, when everything else that actually makes the car run needs attention.

Sometimes our Juniors take ME395 introduction to design and do a project on the car, but it's not always integrated or implemented.

[DJHache]

We have this class called "projects in Mechanical Engineering" at Texas. It's basically a class that allows you to get credit for some research you're doing. I've used it as a tech elective when I was writing a new suspension program. Otherwise we've been pretty much SOL when it comes to getting academic recognition for our Fcar time.

[rjwoods77]

I get credit taken away for the time i spend on this damn car. But that is everyone.

[Angry Joe]

We usually do some independent study classes on developing parts of the car as seniors. There is no credit just for being on the team.

[andrewd]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sarsippius:
We are looking at including more of the race car in our course work, im just wondering how much work you do on your car is credited to your course work? esp non final year students. Any help would be great ( ie assignments on the car) for when we go back to our faculty.
Cheers Sarsippius <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

well we get the knowledge and experience from designing parts and servicing them etc

as per subject credit points, its NUDDA (nothing)

we do it all in our own time and sometimes at the expense of succesfully completing subjects
(ie less time in class hehe)

im sure this is similar to other universities

[Grover]

No credit for us.


Chris
Engine/Drivetrain Group Leader
UNSW FSAE

[Drum]

Final year students have the option of doing their thesis on a system on the car. Works out to about 1/4 of final year credit points.

Otherwise being involved in FSAE helps people learn the skill of cramming a 6 month subject into one day (usually the day before the exam).

I'd better get back to it. Got my last exam tomorrow.

[Eddie Martin]

We can get credit if we do a major part of the car and put together a report on the area and give a presentation about it as well. Credit is equivalent to a normal subject.
We can also do our thesis on a part or system on the car which like rmit is about 1/4 of the final year credit pts.

[jonno]

Brunel (and probably most uk universities) run a system where level 3 students take on an individual system's design as their final year project (examples would be cooling system, uprights, brakes, etc). People then staying on to do a masters then take over the running and management of the team, and usually take over a major aspect of the car too, this year the masters guys are doing the chassis and suspension geometry for our new car.
Both years are around 1/3 of the final mark of our degrees.