Formula Student Team Delft
The first and biggest student team of the TU Delft partaking in the biggest Student competition on the planet. Every year a group of about 100 of the world class upcoming engineers are hand selected to join the most successful Formula Student team in history. A team fully run by students; designing, building and racing a Formula style race car. I participated in this process to build the DUT23, a Record breaking car.
As Suspension Engineer, Wiring Chief, Testing Chief and Pit Crew I had a wide range of responsibilities over the year.
Suspension Engineer
At Formula Student Team Delft I got the job all the engineers wanted to get: to design the suspension geometry. This is a job that only the most promising and motivated engineers get as the Suspension Geometry completely shapes the driving characteristics of a car. The design for the Suspension was created out of carbon fibre and 7075 T-6 Aluminium and is fully adjustable. The Double wishbone design can also be found on F1 cars.
The Wiring Guy
As a born mechanical engineer, becoming the wiring chief was a big challenge, but one I welcomed with open arms and instantly fell in love with.
As Chief Wiring it was my job to design, manufacture and maintain the entire wiring system on the car. While designing the entire wiring harness beforehand in CAD, I had to make sure it is integrated within the rest of the car. I had to select all the wiring gauges, connectors and routing in through the car. During production, I managed a small group of five people to produce the wiring harness with me. During the competition season, I was responsible to maintaining the wiring system and so I had to lay upside down in the car for 4 hours in the middle of the night to find and fix a hair fracture in the high voltage heat shrink causing issues with the insulation.
