SAE/Formula Student

SolidWorks is proud to sponsor all SAE and Formula Student competitions. In these events, university students gain meaningful real-world experience designing, building, testing, and competing with original automotive designs in a team environment.

To be successful, your team must meet all the challenges of today’s automotive industry: communication, deadlines, budgets, and teamwork. This is why SAE and Formula Student organizations attract the best and brightest. It’s also why future automotive industry innovation takes shape here today. SolidWorks offers each team complete tools and support to help them succeed in their competition.

The SolidWorks Team Sponsorship kit includes:

SolidWorks Student Edition

A personal 3D CAD license with advanced surfacing
Motion Analysis for kinematic/dynamic simulation, including event-based studies
FEA (Finite Element Analysis) for structural, thermal, impact, and optimization studies
CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) for fluid and thermal studies
Environmental Impact Analysis of carbon footprint, energy use, material comparison, and more
Costing Analysis estimates of part manufacturing costs that adjust whenever you modify your design
Workgroup PDM data management software to track revisions, ownership, and more for your SolidWorks models and related design documents