UAlberta FSAE — Cooling & Chassis
January 2025
SolidWorks3D Printing3D ScanningChassisCooling
Outcome Designed a chassis torsion rig, 3D-scanned the as-built chassis for it, and built a 3D-printed hardware sorter the whole team still uses.
From September 2024 to January 2025 I was a general member on the Cooling and Chassis subteam of the UAlberta Formula SAE team.
What I worked on
- Torsion rig design — designed a rig to measure the torsional stiffness of the chassis, a key input for suspension tuning and chassis validation.
- 3D scanning — operated a 3D scanner to capture the as-built chassis geometry for the torsion rig work.
- Cooling and chassis research — analyzed design options and trade-offs to support the team’s design decisions for the next car.
- Shop tooling — designed and 3D-printed a bolt-and-nut sorter in SolidWorks that the whole team uses to keep hardware organized.
What I learned
How a real engineering team divides a car-sized problem into subsystems, and how much of good design is measurement and validation rather than CAD.