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UCalgary Baja - Sub-teams

Our Team

SUBTEAMS

Suspension

Our subteam works on the car's handling and terrain performance. We assemble components like the arms, shocks, steering knuckles, and rear bearing carriers. We also perform simulations, calculations, and welding.

Welding suspension arms
chassis in ansys stress simulation

Chassis

Our subteam designs and manufactures the skeleton of the car, incorporating all subsystems and ensuring driver protection. We learn manufacturing techniques like welding, tube coping and tube bending.

Ergonomics

Our subteam works to ensure driver comfort, increase the number of eligible drivers that can drive the car, and decrease driver fatigue by optimizing the seat, head rest, pedals, and pedal foot resets.

brakes and gas pedal CAD
Suspensions arms and steering

Steering

Our subteam designs the steering behaviors of the car, including turning radius, pinion and rack ratio. We use FEA analysis to professional CNC machining to optimize driving dynamics.

Powertrain

Our subteam transfers power to the rear wheels and driveshaft using gearbox, bevel gearbox, CVT, propshaft, rear axles, rear brakes, and rear hubs.

cvt
top down shot of our brake system

Final Drive

Our subteam designs, tests and manufactures the 4WD system, including the differential, axles, hubs and brakes.

Telemetry

Our subteam is responsible for wiring sensors and transmitting real-time data from the vehicle, letting the team to monitor performance and diagnose issues during testing.

strain gauge
weight scale

Data Acquisition

Our subteam focuses on integrating sensors and managing the vehicle's wiring system to accurately collect, store, and analyze performance data for post-test evaluation.

Software

We design and built this site, handle simulation and gather data through the onboard data collection system and run our in club storage system.

jsx code from our sponsors
member wearing ucalgary baja t-shirt

Business

Our subteam develops sponsorship relationships, creates content to post on social media, develop marketing campaigns, arrange travel bookings, handles payments, and manages team merch.