University Students Design and Compete with Race Cars
Around the world, students often take place in various events building small model cars while at the grade school level, but at Michigan State University, college students are building the real thing. The event has attracted students who may have thought previously that engineering was not for them, however once they got the thrill of working on an actual vehicle that could race things began to change in terms of their perspective. The students are working on race cars that they show off for the North American International Auto Show that is held each year at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. The students belong to an organization known as the Michigan State University Formula Society of Automotive Engineers. They divide into teams and then design, construct and test their cares in a number of amateur level open wheel races that take place each year. The organization is entirely run by students and educators on campus approve of it due to the fact that it builds student confidence and also encourages more to take up the math and science oriented professions such as engineering that are often over looked by younger incoming students in a university setting.