Bhavik Bakshi
bakshi.2@osu.edu 614-292-4904
Barbara Wyslouzil
wyslouzil.1@osu.edu 614-688-3583

The Buckeye Bullet is a student organization with the purpose of designing the world's fastest electric vehicle. This land speed racer is designed to reach speeds in excess of 300 mph and competes at the Bonneville Salt Flats, UT. Competitions are held twice a year. October 2004 World Finals, the Buckeye Bullet reached 314.958 mph, a new national record.

Challenge X (formerly Future Truck Team): Modeled after the General Motors Global Vehicle Development Process, and closely follows current real-world automotive design and engineering practices. It challenges engineering students from universities throughout North America to re-engineer a crossover vehicle to achieve better fuel economy and lower emissions. OSU's team finished fourth in the 2006 National Challenge X competition.

Students design and build a working canoe entirely from concrete, then race the canoe against other universities. The final product is a culmination of student ideas, workmanship, and applied consultation with working professionals in all areas of engineering.

Students engage in real-life construction estimating and bidding. The team took top honors in the seventh annaul Ohio Contractors Association Construction Estimating Competition this year.

Students user their engineering skills to design and build an innovative treatment operation to solve an emerging environmental problem. Team members compete in the annual Waste Management and Education Research Consortium (WERC) Environmental Design Contest held in Las Cruces, NM. Student teams compete head-on in four phases: laboratory demonstration of their technology, design report, oral presentation, and poster presentation. Sponsored by the Dept of Energy (DOE) and Sandia National Laboratory.

The FIRST competition is between teams composed of high school students, corporate sponsors, and universities. The competition's purpose is to design and build a part autonomous and part remote controlled robot. The tasks assigned the robot change each year. Currently, OSU sponsors three high school teams.

George Staab
staab.1@osu.edu 614-292-7920

The Formula SAE competition consists of students designing, fabricating, testing, and driving a formula-style race car. Powered by a 600cc Honda CBR motorcycle engine, these vehicles compete in acceleration, cornering, autocross, and endurance events. Additionally, teams must submit cost and design reports and make an oral presentation. The combined score from all events determines the overall winner.

The purpose of the team is to design, construct, and fly as small as possible autonomous and radio controlled plane over a set course. The plane must locate and photograph a hidden target. The winner is the smallest plane that successfully completes the task.

A magazine run by and published for engineering students. Published three times a year, the magazine is distributed to all undergraduate engineering and architecture students, as well as engineering faculty and staff. Member of Engineering College Magazines Associated (ECMA).

Formed in 2006, the mission of the Rocket Team is to design, build, and fly a seven-foot sounding rocket capable of reaching an altitude of 5,000 feet. Besides aerospace engineering, numerous aspects of the rocket use the expertise of other types of engineers such as Chemical Engineers for propulsion, CSE's and ECE's for avionics.

Teams for the biannual Solar Car Team competition are required to design and build a roadworthy vehicle powered only by the sun. With less than 1KW of power, students must optimize all subsystems of the vehicle, minimizing the weight and achieving maximum efficiency. The two week race covers 2,300 miles with the overall winner being determined by the shortest elapsed time.

The Steel Bridge competition allows students to design and construct a steel bridge using their engineering knowledge of structural design and mechanics of materials. Students must load the bridge to its ultimate limit, with the most elegant and sturdy design winning.

The Timber Bridge competition allows students to explore the complexities of bridge construction with a non-isotropic building material: wood. Students must construct the bridge, load it, then send their designs for evaluation.