About Us
UNLV Formula Racing (UFR) is an up and coming UNLV engineering student organization under the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). UFR's mission is to design, build, and race a formula-style electric race car with a current goal to debut and compete in the 2025 Formula SAE EV collegiate design series. This is a new project, having just started in the Fall of 2023 by a handful of students hoping to carve out a space in uncharted territory for UNLV students.
Our organization is structured to emulate a professional motorsports team, complete with mechanical and electrical engineering teams, a business & hospitality team, and a paddock & crew team. These teams are accompanied by sub teams with specialized duties for our operations. Each of our teams plays a significant role in the overall success of UFR as well as setting up our students with opportunities to obtain valuable experience in a wide variety of fields.
Although the UFR organization is young, it's composed of incredibly ambitious college students undertaking a trailblazing project; and upon realizing our goal, we will have designed, developed, and manufactured UNLV and Southern Nevada's first electric race car.
Your Impact
Contributions will be significantly helpful toward allowing our team members to compete at competition held at the Michigan International Speedway including:
- Competition registration
- Trailer for transporting our car to competition
Contributions will also go towards purchasing necessary parts, components, and tools as we continue to manufacture and develop our electric race car in the next year, including:
- Optimum G licenses
- Tools and shocks
- Electric motors and computers
- Chassis stock metal
- Electric car charger
Any and all help is greatly appreicated!
Achievements & Notable Work
One of our most significant achievements in the past year is our collaboration with CIE Solutions, an electrical engineering company that specializes in battery systems. Over the course of several months, our student engineering team researched proper FSAE battery specifications, corresponded back and forth with industry professionals, and contributed to design revisions with technical expertise. In the end, our work yielded a fully custom FSAE-ready battery pack, the very first of its kind at UNLV.
UFR also volunteered at the 2024 FSAE EV competition in Michigan, giving our team members valuable experience and knowledge in competition procedures, tips and tricks on how to pass tech inspection, and giving us the opportunity to meet fellow FSAE engineers around the country and see how successful teams operate.
UFR has continuously volunteered under SAE's A World IN Motion (AWIM) program at local elementary schools in the Las Vegas valley where our team goes into classrooms during the school day and teaches STEM-centered projects and activities. These activities provide a unique and valuable hands-on experience for elementary students to learn extensively about important physics and engineering topics. Based on our work in the AWIM program, UFR has been featured by SAE's web blog and LinkedIn. These highlights, which contain direct quotes from our team members and pictures of the activities in the classroom, can be found linked below.
View SAE International's blog post
View SAE International's Post on LinkedIn