Baja
What is Baja SAE?
Bruin Racing’s BajaSAE team is an entirely student-led group that designs, builds, and races an offroading car on an annual basis. These single-passenger cars are pitted against rival schools in several dynamic events, including one grueling endurance race, and are presented in professional business and design reviews.
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Bruin Racing Baja Team 2017-2018
Baja SAE Oregon 2018
Our Directors
Ben Sharp
Mechanical Engineering '22Technical Director
The Technical Director evaluates the designs and plans of each subteam, setting top-level goals and integration choices in the context of total vehicle performance.
- ▹ benjamin.sharp@bruinracing.org

Alex Hedrick
Mechanical Engineering '22Managing Director
The Managing Director coordinates the whole Baja team, including finding sponsorships, facilitating collaboration between subteams, and keeping the team on track to meet deadlines.
- ▹ alex.hedrick@bruinracing.org

Dominik Bahm
Mechanical Engineering '23Chassis
The chassis subteam designs, assembles, and tests the tubular chassis as well as designing and fabricating body panels and decals for the car.
- ▹ dominik.bahm@bruinracing.org

Junha Park
Mechanical Engineering '23Powertrain
The powertrain subteam designs, manufactures, and tests the gearbox and the half-shaft assemblies.
- ▹ junha.park@bruinracing.org

John Field
Mechanical/Mathematics '22Electronics and Data Aquisition
Data Aquisition’s purpose is to design and implement sensors and other electronics both on and off the baja car for the purpose of collecting data to be used in designing future cars, as well as tuning the current car.
- ▹ john.field@bruinracing.org
Ben Sharp
Mechanical Engineering '22Suspension
The Suspension subteam engineers the car's interaction with the road, optimizing our suspension geometry through the lens of vehicle dynamics.
- ▹ benjamin.sharp@bruinracing.org

Emma Gloyer
Mechanical Engineering '23
Jake Kanetis
Mechanical Engineering '23ECVT (Electro-mechanically actuated Continuously Variable Transmission)
The ECVT team is developing a custom actuated CVT dictated by a controls scheme to autonomously shift and change its gear ratio in order to maintain our engine at its optimal, highest power-output speed.
- ▹ emma.gloyer@bruinracing.org
- ▹ jake.kanetis@bruinracing.org
Conway Xu
Math of Computation '24
Arnav Doshi
Electrical Engineering '24Business
The business leads are in charge of budgeting, corporate partnerships and acquiring sponsorships, applying for funding.
- ▹ conway.xu@bruinracing.org
- ▹ arnav.doshi@bruinracing.org

Jacob Serber
Mechanical Engineering '22Driver Interface
The Driver Interface subteam connects the driver to the car, through steering, braking, and ergonomic design.
- ▹ jacob.serber@bruinracing.org