09/27/2008
The 2008-2009 academic year is under way and Lehigh University BAJA SAE will begin the migration to its race team name, "Mountain Hawk Racing" - however, the final decision has not been made about whether it will be "Hawk" or "Hawks". The 2008 team has reassembled and recruited several promising new members. This year's program will include a focus towards teaching each member to be more self sufficient as well as improving team communication and subdivision of work/tasks. This motion is in response to captains', Kaufman '09 and Daubenspeck '10, foresight for the team's future.

Brainstorming and design for the 2009 car has begun and several innovations and ideas are already likely to be incorporated. For example, the team hopes to switch to 1.25" OD steel tubing with a .065" wall thickness that should significantly lighten the frame over what was used previously, 1" OD tubing with a .120" wall thickness. The '09 car will be Lehigh's most competitve car to date and will place among the top 20 teams at competition.

06/24/2007
LU Baja SAE competes at RIT international competition...

Arriving to competition at 5pm on June 7, 2004, the first day of competition, the outlook for the team's success was bleak. Team Captains Josh Kaufman and Josef Daubenspeck were able to complete the '07 vehicle for safety inspection by Saturday morning and proceeded to compete in all Dynamic events and the 4-hour Endurance Race on Sunday.

The team at competition consisted of only the two captains. The '07 car managed to secure a 65th place rank in the Suspension and Traction event with only one pass and careful (slow) piloting from Josh Kaufman. Josef Daubenspeck also managed a 71st place in the Hillclimb event on his first attempt. Of 141 teams registered and 126 teams present at competition, the performance was worthy. The '07 car's team had no time to test the car and did not actually drive it until the third day of competition.

Lehigh BAJA overcame many obstacles in its current team's first year of competition (2007) and hopes are high for 2008 competition, taking place in June in Montreal, Quebec.

04/23/2007
We are nearly complete with fabrication of the frame. The frame closely followed the design created in the fall semester...