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_UCI's Racecar Engineering is part of the senior engineering design classes MAE 189 with an integrated underclassmen course, MAE 195 . The students will design, engineer, build,  test, and modify racecars throughout the year.  This  year’s goal is to produce racecars for the Energy Invitational competition hosted by UCI in the spring as well as the Formula SAE competitions.

_For the Energy Invitational competition our primary vehicle will be a new all-electric car (Gamma), an efficient gas car (Epsilon), and a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered car (Delta). Gamma will be a giant leap forward for us in drive-train technology, as we plan to introduce for the first time a four-wheel-drive layout with torque vectoring and regenerative braking. These technologies will then be transplanted to our other vehicles after being validated on Gamma.

Formula SAE® is a student design competition organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers). The concept behind Formula SAE is that a fictitious manufacturing company has contracted a design team to develop a small Formula-style race car. The prototype race car is to be evaluated for its potential as a production item. The target marketing group for the race car is the non-professional weekend autocross racer. Each student team designs, builds and tests a prototype based on a series of rules that promote complex problem solving that is at the heart of any great engineering project.

Formula SAE promotes careers and excellence in engineering as it encompasses all aspects of the automotive industry including research, design, manufacturing, testing, developing, marketing, management and finances. Formula SAE takes students out of the classroom and allows them to apply textbook theories to real work experiences.