About Baja SAE

Baja SAE challenges engineering students to design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive the severe punishment of rough terrain and in some competitions, water. As in real work situations, these future engineers work together as a team to discover and resolve technical challenges in design, test, and manufacturing, as well as business issues. The most rugged of all the competitions, Baja SAE also gives students the first-hand challenge of pursuing their passion while managing real-life demands and priorities. Each team's goal is to design and build a prototype of an all-weather, rugged, single-seat, off-road recreational vehicle intended for sale to the nonprofessional weekend off-road enthusiast. 

SAE requires that each vehicle has a pressure-activated brake light and engine kill switches. However, NJIT's Highlander Racing Electrical Subteam focuses on more advanced data acquisition, making many more improvements to the vehicle's performance, and expanding driver controls. As the Electrical Lead, I create yearly design goals, work on hardware and software, and guide students in developing their subsystems.