Senior design project Options

[i love porsche]

hey everyone, i figured id post this here to see what you all thought

I am a ME student at NJIT and for a senior design project, Myself and 2 other students will be redesigning the front suspension of the 914. the goal of the project will be to optimize the structural rigidity of the control arm while decreasing weight, also to try and optimize the camber curves and adjustability for racing use.

prettymuch we would be designing a racing control arm. depending on the results, this may be something that could go into a production run..who knows

what im asking is for donations of stock parts. A arms, shocks, tie rods...

i want to try and recreate a front corner of the car that will be easy to modulate and work on for demonstration and testing purposes.

so let me know your thoughts/ideas

thanks
Aaron

[jd74914]

Interesting. Our senior projects are all company sponsored and all developments are intellectual property of the company. At least in ME there aren't any "school sponsored" projects. The sponsors are companies like Sikorsky, P&W, Electric Boat, Westinghouse, Wiremold etc and they have students design things that they would ordinarily contract out to other out-of-house engineering firms. Its really great because a lot of people get hired before they graduate by their senior design company sponsor (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)