UCalgary Baja
We are a multidisciplinary team designing, manufacturing, testing, and racing a student-built Baja SAE vehicle.
About us
UCalgary Baja is a student organization that designs, builds, tests, and races an off-road vehicle for the Baja SAE competition, an international student engineering challenge organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Our team gives students practical experience in design, manufacturing, project management, and vehicle development. Members work with CAD tools like SolidWorks, simulation workflows such as FEA, and hands-on manufacturing processes that turn ideas into real parts.
We bring together engineering and business students who want real project experience outside the classroom. Members contribute through 10 sub-teams: Suspension, Chassis, Ergonomics, Steering, Powertrain, Final Drive, Telemetry, Data Acquisition, Software, and Business.
Each sub-team owns a specific part of the vehicle while collaborating across the full design cycle. After months of building, testing, and iteration, we take the car to competition in the United States and put our work up against teams from around the world.
Baja SAE
Every year, we take our car to the United States to compete against university teams from across the globe. Each team designs, builds, and races a vehicle capable of surviving rough courses, technical obstacles, and the pressure of real competition.
The event is more than racing. Teams defend design choices, present cost reports, complete inspections, and connect with students, judges, sponsors, and industry professionals from around the world.
Static events move the team from the shop floor into the professional side of engineering. Through the business presentation, cost event, and technical inspection, we show the reasoning behind our design, manufacturing, and project decisions before the car reaches the course.
Dynamic events put the vehicle to work. Acceleration, sled pull, hill climb, maneuverability, and the four-hour endurance race test speed, control, durability, and reliability. The endurance race brings everything together to see how many laps each car can complete.
