Formula SAE Project

The Formula SAE competition was established so that SAE student members could conceive, design, and fabricate a small, open wheel, open cockpit formula-style car, to compete against other schools at nationally sponsored events.

A set of rules constrains vehicle design in the interest of making the competition as much a brainsport, as it is a car race. Student creativity, knowledge, teamwork, and imagination are all challenged. The end result is a rewarding experience for young engineers in a meaningful, intense, and team-based engineering project. More information is available online at SAE International's Website.

Cooper Union Motorsports maintains it's own website at: http://fsae.cooper.edu

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.