Formula
Advisor : Bob West
Each year the Formula teams design , build and race a brand new vehicle . In 2016-2017 , both ICE and Electric formula teams will be building new vehicles simultaneously . The 2015- 2016 vehicles are above with the electric car at the left and the ICE vehicle to the right .
Formula SAE is the largest of the 13 competition teams within the Ware Lab facility with about 200 students , nearly all undergraduates , participating with the traditional and electric versions of the formula cars .
2017 marks the first time the Formula teams will be building two different cars for different competitions in the same year . The teams will construct a internal combustion formula car and an electric vehicle .
Each May the team competes with 120 other schools at a competition put on by the American Society of Automotive Engineers at the Michigan International Speedway . In 2015 , the Virginia Tech team placed 6th in the event .
Formula sponsors include : GM , Huntsman , Student Engineer ' s Council , Ford , Toyota , CFA , ATI , SVHEC , Precision Castparts Corp ., General Dynamics , C . R . Onsrud , SE & M , Simulia , Kolmorgen , Airtech , Lockheed Martin , Calspan , Miltera , MathWorks , ExxonMobil , Stratasys , CD-adapco , The Virginia Tech College of Engineering Ware Laboratory , and many others .