Anteater Baja Racing (ABR) is a team of 37 undergraduate students that aim to design, manufacture, and test an off-road vehicle to compete annually in the Baja SAE West International Competition in late April to early May. At competition, the team faces a combination of static, dynamic, and presentation events evaluated based on design quality and performance. ABR team members apply real-world principles across mechanical design, manufacturing, and project management to develop a vehicle capable of high performance in extreme terrain. The objective presents challenging trade-offs that mirror decisions engineers routinely face, balancing between durability and reliability with optimization for speed, efficiency, and lightweight performance under budget and manufacturing constraints. Additionally, ABR prepares UCI students for industry by engaging them in the full product development cycle, from problem definition and concept generation to prototyping, validation, and testing, while building practical skills in fabrication, collaboration, system engineering, and iterative...
Anteater Combat Engineering
Anteater Combat Engineering (ACE) is a robotics organization dedicated to innovating in the field of combat robotics. Our lightweight and heavyweight teams compete in various competitions that are much like that BattleBots show you may remember on TV.
We are a young project team started by a couple of UCI students who really loved making their own plastic BattleBots. Through passion and hard work, this grew from a couple of friends to a group of over 100 students working to make the best possible robots.
We have two main groups of students, each with their own goal. Our lightweight teams challenge groups of students to build battlebots that do not exceed one pound in weight, entirely out of 3D printed plastic. This group focuses on teaching the engineering fundamentals to incoming collegiate students, Our heavyweight teams focus on iterating and innovating...
e-Human Powered Vehicle Competition
Background
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) hosts a competition called the e-Human Powered Vehicle Challenge (e-HPVC), where teams of students compete to design and fabricate human powered vehicles.
While the term Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) refers to any means of transportation that is powered by human muscles, ASME is actually referring to a subclass of performance vehicles that include semi-recumbent bicycles or tricycles. These vehicles are designed to be fast, safe and ergonomic. They are equipped with performance drivetrains, aerodynamic fairings and rollover-protection systems to meet these certain attributes. The e- at the front is there to represent that these vehicles also have electric motors in them. However, they are limited in power, so that the overall vehicle is still mostly human powered.
The purpose of this competition is to give growing engineers a chance to explore more environmentally minded methods of...