Formula Slug

Formula Slug

Transportation Technology

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Formula Slug is a nonprofit organization at UC Santa Cruz created for students, by students. Our team brings together a diverse group of students to collaborate on the first hands-on engineering project at UC Santa Cruz. We're designing and manufacturing an ecologically-conscious, open wheeled vehicle, and inspiring tomorrow's engineers and leaders while we're at it.

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Our team attracts like-minded, driven individuals and fosters a friendly environment for developing real-world experience. All projects, from the FSAE race car to the Solar Recharging Station, are 100% student-led and executed. Our mission is to complement traditional education with challenging hands-on projects for aspiring engineers at UCSC.


Our Goals and Projects:

We're a team of over 100 students from UC Santa Cruz. We come from a variety of majors and backgrounds, but we're all learning together. Members benefit from the most hands-on engineering team on campus, and an incredibly unique experience. We value our members incredibly. Without the energy, time, and pure, unfiltered dedication that our people put into this project, we wouldn't have a car, much less a culture. The team is made up of three smaller teams: Mechanical, Electrical, and Operations.

What is FSAE?

The Formula Society of Automotive Engineering (Formula SAE or FSAE for short) is a collegiate design competition organized by SAE International. This design series is geared toward university-level automotive engineering projects, including an electric division, FSAE Electric. FSAE Electric is a weekend-long design competition for university teams to compete their student-crafted electric race cars with each other. At the FSAE Electric competition, race cars are judged on their rules compliance, student design, business sales presentation, and on-track performance. Formula Slug has been working for the last seven years to build an electric race car for this competition that may be charged using a portable solar charger; one that can eventually be used to charge other electric vehicles. They hope to set a higher standard at the FSAE competition by entering a project that is 100% renewably powered. 


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Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) is an all-majors-inclusive engineering club that provides students with the opportunity to apply their academic learning to hands-on projects. ESW was established in 2014 with 20 members which has now grown to over 140 members. Currently, the club sponsors two projects: Formula Slug FSAE Electrics, Torque Vectoring and the Solar Recharging Station.

Read more about us at the Formula Slug Homepage.