Formula SAE Racecar
Club: Tufts Electric Racing (FSAE)
Skills: CAD, Teamwork, COMSOL CFD, Manufacturing, Leadership
This Year's Plan
This academic year, we are focusing on improving the entire car from the year prior. During the fall semester of 2024, the aerodynamics team created various CAD models on Onshape for the body work and accessories and utilized COMSOL CFD to see which designs were the most efficient and improved the performance of the car. Manufacturing for the different parts took place between the end of 2024 and start of 2025. All parts were made out of either Carbon fiber or Fiberglass. During the spring semester of 2025, testing and validation for the simulations ran for the car were done and we tweaked the setup accordingly for the competition in May.
What we do
I am the leader of the aerodynamics and bodywork team at the Tufts Electric FSAE Racing Team. Every year, we compete against other universities at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the Formula SAE Electric competition.
My Role
As mentioned before, I am the leader of the Aerodynamics team for the car. I lead a team of 10+ students to design, manufacture, and test the different components of the car. I created designs for the nosecone and sidepods using CAD. I also utilized COMSOL to see the aerodynamic performance different parts have and conducted research on different airfoil designs and which can be useful to us. I created a plan for testing the how the airflow behaves on the car once we manufactured the parts. I am also one of the three drivers that drive the car in May during the competition.
