[July 5, 2014]

YU's YUSAE NT Team took home the overall first place at the 2014 Baja SAE Korea and received the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award, trophy and winner's flag. Second place when to the CMDM Team of YU, while third to the AK Team of Changwon University.

 A total of 770 people in 43 teams fro m26 universities from Korea and abroad participated in the Baja SAE Korea at Yeungnam University 2014 held at the YU Gyeongsan Campus fro the 3rd to 5th in heated competition.

 Prabhu Sampath (22) of the Startos Team from India's Bangalore Institute of Technology said, "I've participated in this for the second straight year. I think the level of the participants are improving every year." He added, "It is a great opportunity to meet with students from other countries and to learn many new technologies. I wish that such international event will be held in India as well."

 At 8 a.m. on the 3rd, the first day of the event, it began with bringing in the vehicles and registering participants. At 10 a.m., static test to review the design creativity, structural safety, driver convenience, ease of maintenance, and possibility of mass production, as well as basic inspections on driving capacities and rule meetings that continued late into the night.

 At 9 a.m. on the second day with the attendance of all teams, volunteers and sponsors, the official opening ceremony was held with car parades of participating teams at the main field and nearby roads. In the afternoon, dynamic tests on acceleration, max speed, towing power, rock climbing, and mud-driving were conducted.

 At the car parade, six teams that participated in the 2nd International Capstone Design Camp held for five days at YU from June 30 also joined with their six electric vehicles that they completed during the camp.

 On the last day, the 5th, the highlight of the event, the endurance race was held on a 3.2km off-road track in the hill behind the YU water filtration center.

 Professor Hwang Pyeong (School of Mechanical Engineering) who has been in charge of the operation of the event for th3 19th year said, "Students worked on designing and producing vehicles for about one year in preparation for this event," and added, "The theories they learn in the classroom and the field experience through this event will be valuable assets to students."

 The Baja SAE began in 1996 for the first time in Korea as a contest for college students to make their own vehicles to compete with each other. In 2001, it was approved for the first time in Korea by SAE, and became an international competition held at YU every year.

 The results of the event are announced worldwide through the official homepage of SAE (www.sae.org) and publications.