Who We Are
UConn Electric Motorsports is a student-run, professional organization that designs and builds an electric, open-wheeled formula style race car. The team allows students to gain real world experiences in manufacturing, design, marketing, and business outreach, with the capacity to incorporate every academic interest in order to achieve our greater project goals. UCEM competes annually in the Formula SAE Electric collegiate competition in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Formula North in Barrie, Canada.
The Competition
UCEM competes annually in both the FSAE Lincoln and Formula North competitions. These intercollegiate competitions test the limits of both American and international vehicles in a series of static and dynamic events. In the static events, judges with years of industry experience evaluate cars based on its design, cost and marketability.
Student drivers then suit up to demonstrate the car's capacity on the race track. Teams compete for time on both the straight acceleration and figure-8 skid pad tracks, as well as in the autocross and 14 mile long endurance events. This combination of dynamic and static evaluations of our car test not only its practical ability, but the extent of the technical knowledge of the students by whom it was built.
Student drivers then suit up to demonstrate the car's capacity on the race track. Teams compete for time on both the straight acceleration and figure-8 skid pad tracks, as well as in the autocross and 14 mile long endurance events. This combination of dynamic and static evaluations of our car test not only its practical ability, but the extent of the technical knowledge of the students by whom it was built.
