Your Gift Makes a Difference!
The Society of Automotive Engineers at SMU builds racecars. They participate in the Formula SAE competition, which is organized every year (since 1980) by SAE International. The concept behind Formula SAE is that a fictional manufacturing company has contracted a student design team to develop a small Formula-style racecar. The prototype racecar is to be evaluated for its potential as a production item. The target marketing group for the racecar is the nonprofessional weekend autocross racer. Each student team designs, builds and tests a prototype based on a series of rules, and the purpose is both ensuring on-track safety (the cars are driven by the students themselves) and promoting clever problem solving. The engineering and manufacturing skills students developed in this group are extremely attractive to employers in any industry, naturally including the automotive industry. The experience gained through this organization has led many to secure their dream jobs, which is why we need every bit of financial help we can get! It is important to raise these funds so our organization can continue to design and build better racecars and attract better engineers for each year of competition.
With your generous donation, we will be able to pay for the parts we are physically unable to manufacture, along with the raw materials and tools for everything we can make! All donations will earn a vinyl sticker with your organization/name placed on the body panels of our next racecar! We hope you are as excited as we are to continue our premier engineering organization at Lyle!