SAE INDIA MembershipBaja SAEINDIA is an intercollegiate engineering design competition for undergraduate and graduate engineering students. The object of the competition is to simulate real‐world engineering design projects and their related challenges. Each team is competing to have its design accepted for manufacture by a fictitious firm. The students must function as a team to design, build, test, promote and compete with a vehicle within the limits of the rules, also to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.
History
The SAE Mini Baja® Competition originated at the University of South Carolina in 1976, under the direction of Dr. John F. Stevens. Since then the competition has grown to six competitions: three in North America and one each in Brazil, Korea and South Africa with over 500 entries. With the growth of the series, corporations have come to recognize that students with Baja SAE on their resumes are premier candidates for their engineering positions.
From the 2007 Collegiate Design Series, SAE announced the name of Mini Baja competitions for rugged, single‐seat, off‐road recreational vehicles as Baja SAE. This change brought the name of the off‐road design events into consistency with that of the well‐known Formula SAE design competitions for autocross vehicles. During the same year, under the direction of Dr. Pawan K. Goenka (former SAE INDIA President) and the convenership of Dr K.C Vora (Secretary, SAE India) BAJA SAEINDIA, the maiden BAJA SAE INDIA Series was conducted at the NATRAX (National Automotive Test Tracks) facility of NATRIP (National Automotive Testing and R & D Infrastructure Project), Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh, in December 2007. The event witnessed its second year in January 2009 at NATRAX. The next BAJA SAEINDIA Event is slated for Jan 29th – 31st 2010 witnessing participation from Asian Subcontinent.
The Virtual BAJA SAEINDIA Design Challenge, a unique addition to the BAJA SAEINDIA Series originated in the year 2008 under the Convenership of Dr N Karuppaiah, BAJA SAEINDIA, Mr N Balasubramanian and Mr S Shanmugham, Co‐Convener, BAJA SAEINDIA Virtual Design Challenge.
From the 2007 Collegiate Design Series, SAE announced the name of Mini Baja competitions for rugged, single‐seat, off‐road recreational vehicles as Baja SAE. This change brought the name of the off‐road design events into consistency with that of the well‐known Formula SAE design competitions for autocross vehicles. During the same year, under the direction of Dr. Pawan K. Goenka (former SAE INDIA President) and the convenership of Dr K.C Vora (Secretary, SAE India) BAJA SAEINDIA, the maiden BAJA SAE INDIA Series was conducted at the NATRAX (National Automotive Test Tracks) facility of NATRIP (National Automotive Testing and R & D Infrastructure Project), Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh, in December 2007. The event witnessed its second year in January 2009 at NATRAX. The next BAJA SAEINDIA Event is slated for Jan 29th – 31st 2010 witnessing participation from Asian Subcontinent.
The Virtual BAJA SAEINDIA Design Challenge, a unique addition to the BAJA SAEINDIA Series originated in the year 2008 under the Convenership of Dr N Karuppaiah, BAJA SAEINDIA, Mr N Balasubramanian and Mr S Shanmugham, Co‐Convener, BAJA SAEINDIA Virtual Design Challenge.
This year BAJA SAEINDIA Virtual Design Challenge is being Hosted by SAE Northern India Section. BAJA SAEINDIA 2010 Virtual will be concluded on 12th-13th October 2009 at N.S.I.T., Delhi.
Top three winners of BAJA SAEINDIA 2010 virtual design challenge will get direct entry to BAJA SAEINDIA 2010 Main event which is scheduled to be held on 29-31st Jan. 2010 at Peethampur, Indore(M.P.), India
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