Category: News

By: Loren McDonald (Mechanical Engineering, ’20) Noah Meyers and the suspension team have been busy this season. Our team has been trying to incorporate aluminum […]

By: Loren McDonald (Mechanical Engineering, ’20) Usability has quickly become one of the most popular subsystems on the Baja Team. After driver training and Midnight […]

By: Loren McDonald (Mechanical Engineering, ’20) Charlie and his team have been going above and beyond to make the lightest drivetrain system in the history […]

By: Loren McDonald (Mechanical Engineering, ’20) We’ve been working really hard on our frame design this year, and we have already started manufacturing the first […]

By Loren McDonald (Mechanical Engineering, ’20) The electronics team went above and beyond with blinging out our car for Midnight Mayhem. We managed to use data […]

By Loren McDonald (Mechanical Engineering, ’20) The Baja team is just getting back from our trip to Midnight Mayhem, and as always, we had a […]

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 Noah Meyers (Mechanical Engineering, ’20) The 2018 suspension on the University of Rochester Baja SAE car is currently being designed. While the geometry of […]

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 Kevin Bonko (Mechanical Engineering, ’17) Why do we stay up into the wee hours of the morning to paint a couple pieces of welded […]