Author: Charles Patterson

By Loren McDonald (Mechanical Engineering, ’20) On behalf of the entire University of Rochester Baja SAE Team, I would like to thank all of our […]

By Harris Mandell (Mechanical Engineering, ’21) I was first introduced to Baja SAE while passing by one of the cars in the Rettner Atrium on […]

By Gilead Biggie (Mechanical Engineering, ’18) New for the 2018 season, our team will be cutting some of our parts in house with the help of […]

As 2017 wraps up, the team is pushing to raise $15,000 to cover the cost of attending three competitions this season. Please consider donating! DONATE […]

At Baja Kansas 2017, after the endurance race had ended and we were about to leave to head back to Rochester, I gave everyone on […]

By Dylan Borruso (Optical Engineering, ’19) This past week the UR Baja SAE team moved from the Gavett Hall shop to a new shop in […]

By Ethan Fahnestock (Physics and Astronomy, ’21) Midnight Mayhem has me hooked on Baja. After just two weeks on the team and an hour of driver training, the other new members and I joined the rest of the team on a 10-hour trek to the middle of nowhere Kentucky. After we survived the drive and learned a little more about our teammates than we planned to), we set up camp, met some of the other teams, and rested up for the competition the next day. The day of competition was where all the action happened. It started early – with the preparation of our cars to pass tech – and ended late with the “six-hour” endurance race planned from 6 pm to midnight. The […]

By Yash Mehrotra (Team Captain, Team Helios Racing) On the wake of its 10th anniversary, Team Helios Racing, the Baja team of RV College of Engineering, […]

By Michael Macfarlane (Mechanical Engineering, ’17) I joined the team a year ago, as a junior who had recently switched majors from Biomedical Engineering to […]

By Christopher Plunkett (Biomedical Engineering, ’16) Entering college I was not entirely sure what to expect.  Having grown up in a small town, I was […]

By Dylan Borruso (Optics, ’19) My first year on the Baja team started in January, immediately after winter break.  I had decided that I had […]