P10225: Water Propulsion System for Mini-Baja

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Project Summary	Project Information
Every year the RIT club known as Baja SAE designs a water-land vehicle to compete in competitions all over the nation. The vehicle is put through rigorous events that test the students' ability to engineer a fast durable vehicle that can be driven both on land and in water and meets certain specifications set forth by the SAE organization. The water propulsion project focuses mainly on the water portion of the competition, in which the car has to both travel through and maneuver around obstacles in water. There are few rules that put restrictions on the design of the water propulsion system of the vehicle, so this project is very opened-ended and requires creative engineering skills. The first portion of this project will be to design and build a testing device to measure the force of the propulsion system and will aid in designing a successful system that can be implemented on the Mini-Baja vehicle. Having the ability to test the system, as well as the knowledge acquired from the research and design of this project, will help the Mini-Baja vehicle perform better in competition and help RIT make its mark as an engineering leader. RIT Baja vehicle in action	Project Name Water Propulsion System for Mini-Baja Project Number P10225 Project Family SAE Autosports Track Vehicle Systems and Technologies Start Term Fall 2009 End Term Winter 2009 Faculty Guide Chris DeMinco Technical Consultant Bill Nowak Primary Customer Mini-Baja club

Project Team Members

Name	Discipline
Project Lead: Erika Soltis Lead Engineer: Greg Wall Henriette Bullmer Blaine Byers Eric Hodgkinson Stephanie Malinowski Ticiano Torres Peralta	Industrial and Systems Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering