Using Collegiate Competitions to provide an Enhanced Engineering Education: A Case Study

The standard classical education method for an engineering education is sometimes inadequate for educating students regarding the complex engineering challenges of tomorrow. In order to motivate students for these challenges, educators must integrate that promote activity outside of the traditional classroom setting. Students are inherently motivated via competition - engineering design competitions can be used to intrinsically motivate students to expand the classical engineering education. This paper describes the challenges and benefits of the Formula SAE Collegiate Design Series with respect to the engineering education from the students persepctive.