Monash University Student Race Car Program

25/11/2019 8 min
Monash University Student Race Car Program

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Episode Synopsis

At the driverless vehicle summit held in Sydney there was a demonstration from Students from Monash University that might be a cute exercise for those who are interested in motor racing. It turns out, however, that it is a comprehensive exercise that prepares students for working in teams, with other disciplines and with business. And it has students making a commitment in their effort that many other faculties could only dream about.

The basic elements are
• Monash has a wide range of teams participating in major projects
• Teams can have 120 or more students involved from many different disciplines
• The Racing teams participate in a longstanding worldwide competition between universities.
• It is a full racing team that races on circuits around the world
• Up to 40 students may go overseas with the team to compete
• Initially it was petrol cars and then it became electric vehicles and now it is autonomous vehicles.
• Monash was ranked number one with their petrol car against many older and larger universities.
Marc Pizzi is the Industry portfolio manager at Monash University.

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