The JMU Mini-baja Team is a group of students motivated towards the common goal of competing in as many of the SAE Baja competitions as possible. These competition will require the team to work together and delegate tasks to design, manufacture, promote, construct, and raise their own funding to build a mini-baja vehicle. The SAE requires the team to follow a strict set of rules so innovation and creativity will be applied to help the JMU team stand out. This year they hope to have the mini-baja running on an alternative fuel that will soon be determined, as well as have a second engine that runs on standard fuel. The JMU Baja Team is always accepting new members regardless of major, for more information feel free to e-mail any of the Baja team members.

Our Mission

To design and build innovative alternative fuel vehicles to compete in the maximum number of AFV/SAE competitions possible each year.
 

Purpose

• Provide hands on professional engineering experience
• Encourage team work and delegation of tasks
• Develop new leadership skills
• Create lasting relationships with professionals in the alternative fuel industry
• Manage our educational priorities
• Generate financial support for our project
• Design, build, test, and race the SAE Baja vehicle
• Compete annually against colleges from around the world
• Demonstrate the capabilities of alternative fuels in the hope that we can
• inspire a competition rules change.

Members

Tanner - Team Leader/Alternative Fuel

Nathan - Alternative Fuel Lead

Jimmy - Chassis Lead

Spencer - Suspension

Timmy - Brake Technician

Troy - Chassis

Alex - Fund Raising/Drive Train

Scott - Fund Raising/Drive Train

Taylor - Motor Sports Expert

Emilio - The New Guy

Dan Drumheller - Adviser

Dr. Jeffery Tang - Faculty Adviser

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For more information about the SAE Baja
project, or if you would like to visit our shop
to see how we work and design, please us
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SAE Mini Baja at JMU
P.O. Box 8208
Harrisonburg VA 22807
 

 last updated: 2009-09-17

The JMU AFV is pround to announce that we recently won a $19,500 Grant from the University/National Parks Energy Partnership Program (UNPEPP), allowing us to partner with Shenandoah National Park to convert a 1994 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck to full plug-in battery electric.  The primary focus of this project will be the implementation study and how the vehicle is accepted in the park from both the staff and the visitors' perspectives.

A special thank you to the UNPEPP program for this terrific opportunity!

The Supermileage® competition provides engineering and technology students with a challenging design project that involves the development and construction of a single-person, fuel-efficient vehicle.

Increasing fuel economy in the vehicles we use to power the world's transportation system is of vital importance for future generations.  Without question, the global oil supplies will be depleted - most lik

ely within the next 20 years. It is true that we have significant petroleum reserves in the form of oil shale and tar sands, and even coal can be converted to a liquid fuel if need be. 

 BUT, we also know that ALL of these forms of energy pose potentially catastrophic damage to our environment.

Alternative fuels such as wind, solar, tidal, biomass and even nuclear energy promise much less environmental im

pact than their counterparts.  But none of these are capable of displacing the quantity of energy that is consumed currently.  In order to replace the oil that we currently consume with clean, renewable energy, it is essential that we increase the fuel economy of our vehicles.

 The SuperMileage Project is founded on these ideas.  Students will engage with the Design and Construction of a highly fuel efficient, single passenger vehicle. The goal is to exceed 1000 mpg.

 If you're interested, check out this link to the Official SAE website:

  http://students.sae.org/competitions/supermileage/home.htm

 Check out some of the below links for more info!