Hornet Racing
Hornet Racing is CSU Sacramento’s Formula SAE team. Formula SAE is an intercollegiate engineering competition based around the design and manufacture of a formula style racecar.
My Role
My role in Hornet Racing is the Powertrain Lead. The systems under my purview are the engine, transmission, cooling, oil, fuel, and tuning.
My Objective
My objective in Hornet Racing is to teach others what I know, manage the projects that I give out to members of my system, and teach incoming freshman how to be engineers working within a team setting. Additionally, I love the outreach of high school students, and getting them interested in engineering.
My Projects
I have worked on numerous projects at Hornet Racing.
A complete file restructuring in 2023 that turned 3 weeks of file management from the previous year into a simple 2-minute process.
Our car was over the sound limit of 110 dBC in 2023, and in 2024 the changes I made resulted in our car decreasing its dB reading by 11, making it the quietest 4-cylinder at the competition.
Under my leadership, my system is consistently the largest and best run out of any system, and I consistently work with other system leads on their management skills to improve them.
I turned our DIL (Driver-In-Loop) simulator from a ballpark guess into being within 5% of reality, and with help from my teammate Ryan, made it possible to extract and compare data to reality. This speeds up the design process and removes errors.
I implemented a new, more powerful, ECU (Engine Control Unit) and tuned the entire car from scratch. I was able to add features such as No-Lift Shift, Automatic Shifting, Traction Control, Launch Control, more sophisticated Data Acquisition
