LAUNCH 2017 9 CE • ECE • MNE Baja SAE Team Team leaders Connor Munk President Colin January Vice President Jacob Leuthold Shop Manager Theresa Collins Treasurer Brandon Hulet Treasurer/Webmaster Faculty adviser Gregory Spaulding, MNE assistant professor The K-State Baja SAE Team or Wildcat Oﬀ-Road Team designs, builds and competes with a single- passenger oﬀ-road vehicle, which takes nearly a full school year to design and build. Competitions are held across the U.S., as well as worldwide in South Korea, India and Egypt. Each competition has 100 participating teams. Competitive events include cost report, sales presentation, design report, hill climb, acceleration, maneuverability, suspension and a four-hour endurance race where all 100 teams race on a single course — a real-life version of Mario Kart. K-State Baja took part in the following competition locations in 2016-17: Houghton, Michigan, February 2016, eighth place; Gorman, California, May 2016 and April 2017, 42nd and 35th places, respectively; and Pittsburg, Kansas, May 2017, 52nd place. The team also toured the Farrar Corporation, Norwich, Kansas, in September 2016, as well as Grasshopper Mowers, Moundridge, Kansas, in January 2017, gaining information on parts’ materials and driving experience.

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LAUNCH 2017 9CE

• EC

E • M

Baja SAE Team

Team leadersConnor Munk PresidentColin January Vice PresidentJacob Leuthold Shop ManagerTheresa Collins TreasurerBrandon Hulet Treasurer/Webmaster

Faculty adviserGregory Spaulding, MNE assistant professor

The K-State Baja SAE Team or Wildcat Off-Road Team designs, builds and competes with a single-passenger off-road vehicle, which takes nearly a full school year to design and build. Competitions are held across the U.S., as well as worldwide in South Korea, India and Egypt. Each competition has 100 participating teams. Competitive events include cost report, sales presentation, design report, hill climb, acceleration, maneuverability, suspension and a four-hour endurance race where all 100 teams race on a single course — a real-life version of Mario Kart.

K-State Baja took part in the following competition locations in 2016-17: Houghton, Michigan, February 2016, eighth place; Gorman, California, May 2016 and April 2017, 42nd and 35th places, respectively; and Pittsburg, Kansas, May 2017, 52nd place.

The team also toured the Farrar Corporation, Norwich, Kansas, in September 2016, as well as Grasshopper Mowers, Moundridge, Kansas, in January 2017, gaining information on parts’ materials and driving experience.