Pontiac-based DASI Solutions said Wednesday it had for the sixth year donated SolidWorks software to Lawrence Technological University for use in the Formula SAE competition series. SolidWorks matches DASI's gift to the program.
The software allows the Lawrence Tech teams to do extensive design validation including advanced computational fluid flow analysis, studies they weren’t able to do in past contests.
The team, comprised of mechanical and electrical engineers, has been working for a year and a half to research and design a working competition car.
“Having access to SolidWorks makes a more collaborative working environment," said Shaun Bentley, a senior mechanical engineering student at Lawrence Tech and a DASI Solutions applications engineer. "Adding additional seats has made it a lot easier to interface with more people and speeds up the learning curve. Our collaboration has been seamlessly integrated while working with the initial design and concept in SolidWorks then transferring it into fabrication.”
David Darbyshire has been involved with Formula SAE since 1986 when he was a Mechanical Engineering student at Lawrence Technological University. As owner of DASI Solutions, Darbyshire stays connected with the next generation of Designing Engineers by providing the SolidWorks technologies used in the Formula SAE competition.
The Formula SAE challenges about 120 student teams from colleges and universities throughout the world to conceive, design, fabricate, and race a small, formula-style, autocross racing car. For purposes of the competition, students are asked to assume that a manufacturing firm has engaged them to produce a prototype car for evaluation as a production vehicle. The intended sales market is the nonprofessional weekend autocross racer. The final product is then taken to the competition, where it is critiqued by experienced judges and compared to other cars entered.
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