Curtin Motorsport Team - About us
> The Curtin Motorsport Team 2008
The Curtin Motorsport project is an entirely student run initiative, supported by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin Business School, Curtin Faculty of Humanities and the Vice Chancellor's office. Each year the students involved are tasked with the challenge to design, build and race a Formula SAE-A race car. The projects demands and develops many skills across a number of disciplines including mechanical design, engineering project management, budgeting and professional correspondence (ie with sponsors and suppliers).
The team consists of a student leadership team, a number of design engineers, supporting engineers, research engineers as well as, in the future, an administration team consisting of marketing, advertising, management, accounting and information systems students. Our leadership team are always on the lookout for ultra-motivated students with a passion for motorsport and their particular field, be it engineering or marketing.
The team originated in 2003 with a bunch of highly motivated students from Engineering, Business, and Art and Design. The student body had the responsibility of running the team with the university support. The competition was a success with the team being able to complete every stage of the competition and the team placing 17th out of 21.
The second CMT car to go over to Melbourne was in 2005. The car showed huge improvement on the 2003 car, with a completely new car being designed. The new car also came with a change of powertrain, with the CBR600 F4i being used as opposed to the GSX-R600. The team placed a respectable 19th out of 25. The 2005 team were able to set the team up by securing many monetary and inkind sponsors, many of whom continue to support the team, which ahs made the design and manufacturing of the car much easier.
2006 saw the team arrive for its 3rd tilt at the FSAE title. The team comprised of 13 engineering students from Mechanical, Mechatronic and electrical disciplines. The team worked tirelessly to produce a car to take to the event and were able to make good progress on the design of the car.
2007 was a year when much research was put into making the car a more sophisticated package and also sought out the team structure. The year was successful in implementing protocol in many areas that had previously been overlooked. It also saw the design of many innovative parts, eg: first dry sump being successfully designed and built. cbsplus was introduced into the team to assist in the marketing and administrative side of the team. This has been an essential part of moving forward by letting the engineers design and not have to worry about the administrative side of the team's operation.
Thus far, in 2008, the team has been busy designing the new car and restoring existing equipment. When finished, the car will be the most advanced of any CMT car yet. The frame will be the lightest every made by CMT and with the introduction of paddle shifting mechanism it will provide superior drivability.
