Design. Build. Compete. Started in 2004 by a few engineering students who liked cars, Florida Atlantic University’s Formula SAE team slowly grew into a top-level competitor. Unlike most engineering organizations at FAU, Owls Racing has one monumental goal: to design, build, and race a brand new car every year. From scratch. The first car competed in 2006. On a budget of only a few thousand dollars and built out of shed, Owls Racing started off in the middle of the pack. Since then, we’ve gone on to complete ten cars, with our best overall year in 2017 (21st place overall). Notable individual events are 8th in acceleration in 2013; 2nd in business and 16th in autocross in 2015; 12th in endurance in 2017; and our lowest weight in 2018 at 477 pounds (with aero). While primarily composed of engineering students and a few business students, any major is welcome to join the team. We have just about everyone, from Anthropology all the way to Neuroscience. This year’s team is headed by President Miroslav Homuta, a Senior mechanical engineering student, with the help of Vice President Valentina Zurita, a biology student, and Lead Engineer Jeffrey Basiliere, a third-year mechanical engineering students. For more information about who’s on the team, visit The Team page. We’re located at the Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton Campus in the Engineering West Building in room 156, down by the electronics lab and the submarine club.
