Join the Club

Becoming part of the Carnegie Mellon Chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers is the best way to get involved with the automotive industry at an undergraduate level. SAE, the premier society dedicated to advancing mobility engineering worldwide, is also the leader in automotive education. SAE hosts a number of undergraduate competitions which inspire students to apply their academic course work to create a competitive final product. In SAE's collegiate design series, you can design a radio controlled airplane, build a snowmobile, or race a formula car. SAE will not only give you hands-on experience and practical knowledge, but is also an exciting and fast-paced extracurricular.

Here at CMU SAE, we primarily compete in Formula-SAE. In the past we've competed in other competitions but nothing quite compares to Formula which is regarded as the pinnacle of the SAE design series. Teams competing in Formula design and fabricate a complete open-wheeled formula race car from the ground up. Practically everything excluding the engine and wheels is designed and assembled by the formula teams. Every year over 200 teams from around the world compete in both dynamic and static events.

Our formula team always has plenty of work to be done and a real need for committed and eager individuals. Anyone looking to join is encouraged to subscribe to our BBoard, assocs.soc-auto-engineers, and stop by our garage (in the West Garage Complex, see map). Joining our team will get you out of the class room and onto the asphalt. We have numerous opportunities involving: engine-dyno testing, computer controlled machining, computer aided design and analysis, vehicle dynamics, and composites fabrication. If all of these activities isn't enough of an incentive to join we're also a pretty cool group, we make the MechE machine shop the hippest place to be on campus.