ABOUT SDR
Sun Devil Racing (SDR) is a student organization in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering College, at the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus. We compete annually in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Baja competitions. SAE describes the program as..."competitions that simulate real-world engineering design projects and their related challenges. Engineering students are tasked to design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive the severe punishment of rough terrain. Each team's goal is to design and build a single-seat, all-terrain, sporting vehicle whose structure contains the driver. The vehicle is to be a prototype for a reliable, maintainable, ergonomic, and economic production vehicle which serves a recreational user market."
SDR began in 2012 with a vehicle inherited from a past school project. Over the next four years, SDR made huge improvements by placing 2nd in Rock Crawl, 8th overall in Portland, Oregon, and 10th overall in Baltimore, Maryland in 2015, with similar results in the 2016 season. SDR continuously strives to achieve better results than the previous years in the various collegiate competitions.
WHAT WE LEARN
BUSINESS
MANUFACTURING
TEAMWORK
WHY WE NEED YOU
In a typical year our Baja SDR team requires approximately $41,000 to compete. The greatest expense for the team involves travel (flights, shipping, gas, lodging, etc.). Materials and manufacturing are the next largest expense, including chromoly tubing, aluminum stock, steel stock, and laser/water jet cutting. Additional costs include, but are not limited to, premanufactured parts such as the engine, shocks, wheels, master cylinders, and safety gear.
A World In Motion (AWIM), is one partnership SDR has partnered with. This program, hosted by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), allows team members to give back to the youth in the community by volunteering to teach K-12 schools Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). In exchange, SAE helps cover competition registration fees.
A gift of this amount represents the age of our oldest Baja Sun Devil Racing member.
A gift of this amount represents the number of colleges we are going to race against and beat.
A gift of this amount could go towards 10 starving students eating for one day.
A gift of this amount could go towards 15 students sleeping in hotels and not cars for one night at competition.
A gift of this amount represents the luck you'll give us at competitions for this racing season.
A gift of this amount would match the amount we would be rewarded when we win the four hour endurance race.