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A
team of eight engineering students from the Mechanical Engineering Department
at the Faculty of Engineering at KAU has developed an exclusively off-road
mini Baha vehicle, to be entered into the SAE International 2015 Collegiate
Design Series. With its headquarters in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, USA, SAE
International is a global organization of more than 138,000 engineers
and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and
commercial-vehicle industries promoting life-long learning and standards
development (http://www.sae.org/).
The
competition will accommodate more than 120 university students from various
countries around the world, and will be held in the United States. Faculty of Engineering team leader for the
competition, Naif ibn Ahmed, expressed his confidence in his team’s
capabilities, and highlighted the enormous opportunity this event provides to
demonstrate to the world Saudi youth achievements and potential, in the area
of innovation and manufacturing development.
The
vehicle, which is a product of a graduation project, and all of its
specifications from the design, research, and manufacturing stages, will be
showcased at the event. Moreover, the
team members, project coordinator, Dr. Haitham Bogis, and project
supervisors, Dr. Alaa Hijazi and Dr. Ahmed Sharif El-Gizawi are all lauded by
their KAU Engineering community for their efforts in this great achievement.
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