Student Activities
One of the highlights of undergraduate student activities is Stony Brook Motorsports which takes part in the Baja Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International Competition Series.
Students in Stony Brook Motorsports build an off road car known as the "baja" virtually from scratch. They have a year to do this and they devote 20 hours per week, 40 towards the end of the semester. It is both fun and challenging for car enthusiasts and those who enjoy working on a team. The Society of Automotive Engineers supplies the engine for the car. The body, frame, brakes, pistons, tires are plotted, designed and assembled by the team in strict keeping to the budget and with regulations imposed by the Baja SAE International Competition rules. There is always a dedicated group of juniors and seniors willing to devote precious time to this project. The "team historian" keeps records of what went wrong and right in previous competitions. They learn from their mistakes and use experience to improve performance. In the late spring, the baja is ready to go and the group with faculty advisors, Henry Honigman, Bob Martin, Lester Orlick, Noah Machtay, and Lin-Shu Wang embark on a cross country odyssey to our nation's heartland to compete with other mini baja cars from engineering programs around the world. Over the years the Stony Brook Motorsports has placed in design and safety categories.
At the Baja SAE Challenge at the South Dakota School of Mines in 2007, the team won the overall 3rd place, the 2nd place for design, and the 1st place in static design judging, among more than 100 international teams. In the Baja SAE Challenge at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007, the team won the 1st place for the Autodesk Design Communication Award, the 9th place in static design judging, and the overall 20th place, among more than 140 international teams. Most recently, at the Baja SAE International Competition at Montreal, Canada in June 2008, the team won 2nd place overall.
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This experience is great for future engineers During campus events, Stony Brook Motorsports hauls out the vehicle so that the campus community can learn what goes into actually building a car. This club epitomizes what our Department is all about: excellence in design, commitment to a goal, dedication and teamwork.
The Robot:
The 2004 Robot Competition and Exhibition, sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, is an annual event in which student from many universities put their robots through a grueling week to test and push all robots' machine vision and artificial intelligence to their limits.
Stony Brook's Robot Team ranked first for the Open Interaction Event and received the award for Audience Favorite. Their robot, JESTER, which stand for Joke Entertainment System with Trivia-Emitted Responses, search for people to interact with, tell jokes to, share trivia with and with whom to hold intelligent conversation.
Congratulations to the Stony Brook Team: Zeynep Altinbas, Diana David, Murtaza Karim, Mattnew Marge, Manish Muttreja, Thomas Nasti and Huang Yang and to their advisor, ME Associate Professor, Imin Kao.
Affiliation with clubs and Organizations on campus
The Department of Mechanical Engineering of the State University of New
York at Stony Brook is connected with and fully supports many different
organizations on campus. These groups are usually in some way related to
Mechanical Engineering or engineering in general. Listed below are links
to a number of different organizations and clubs on campus that mechanical
engineering students are frequently involved with.
If you have a club or organization that you would like added to this page
you can contact the Mechanical Engineering department. Your group must have
a web page in order to be listed on this page.
Organizations
- National Society
of Professional Engineers
- American Society
of Mechanical Engineers
- Society of Women
Engineers
- Society of Hispanic
Professional Engineers
- Minorities in
Engineering and Applied Sciences
- National Society
of Black Engineers
Clubs
- Solar
Splash
- Stony Brook Motorsports
- Robot
Design Team