Illini Formula Electric

From all of us at IFE, we wish everyone a happy and healthy winter break! See you all next year!

Thank you to our sponsor for providing their top of the line customized MonarchTent for the 2023 season!

TentCraft provides the best tents for teams and events with the highest quality, speed, and customization centered in American craftsmanship. Reach out to their helpful team for your next tent, structure, or event signage!

Wishing everyone a happy Fall break from IFE! Our team hard at work finally gets some time to relax, celebrate, and roast turkeys instead of our chassis. We are all so grateful for this team and can't wait to get back to work soon 🥰🥰

Electric cars are robots…right? 🤖🤖

Here’s some nice photos of us sharing the wonders of engineering at the Robot Day this past weekend!

Electric cars are robots…right? 🤖🤖

Here’s some nice photos of us sharing the wonders of engineering at Robot Day this past weekend!

Huge thanks to our sponsor Snap-on Tools for providing our team with some amazing equipment! From the wrenches to the drills, IFE is excited to work with Snap-on in the creation of this season's car!

Thank you so much to for coming out and visiting IFE this past Tuesday! We had a blast checking out the Rivian R1T and showing you guys around our first ever four wheel drive vehicle. We can't wait to see what Rivian does at with the future of electrification as we partner up and together this year!

Everything we do in Illini Formula Electric simply isn't possible without our sponsors. Because of this, we're back posting another to show our appreciation for our sponsors! This weekend, we're shouting out for their support in these difficult times.

Our sponsors empower us as a team to design, build, and test our cars each year. Furthermore as individuals, our team members learn, grow, and adapt to diverse working environments, picking up a plethora of pertinent skills along the way.
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Here's a little information from CarParts.

CarParts.com is a technology-driven eCommerce company improving the way drivers shop for the parts they need. After being in business for over 20 years, we’ve focused and streamlined our efforts to build a seamless factory-to-consumer online shopping experience.

You can find more about them here: https://carparts.com/company/about
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If you are interested in sponsoring us please email us at [email protected] or give us a DM. We would be more than happy to give more details on the benefits of sponsoring us.
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Hey Illini! We hope you all are excited for school year as we are! Do you like fast cars? Do you like working with your hands? Do you want to learn skills that will make you career ready in a multitude of engineering fields? If so, Illini Formula Electric may be for you!
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If you’re interested in joining our team, want to learn more about us, or even just come through and say hi, visit us at the Virtual Quad Day from 12pm-4pm this Saturday and Sunday. If you want the Zoom meeting code ahead of time go to illiniformulaelectric.com and scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Join Us” and fill out the subsequent fields. You’ll be added to our mailing list and receive an email with extra information for Quad Day soon. Otherwise you can get the Zoom link during
Virtual Career Fair.
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If you have any questions shoot us a DM or email us at [email protected] and we’ll get back to you. We hope to see you there!
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For today’s post we would like to thank one of our longest sponsors, . Many of you already know that Solidworks has sponsored FSAE competitions and FSAE teams for quite some time now and they are a big reason many teams are able to design a car at all.
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Their industry grade software allows our team members to get hands on CAD experience using a plethora of innovative tools and features. Their UI is extremely intuitive allowing new members to get up to speed on CAD and be able to start working on technical projects quickly.

Our team uses Solidworks not only to CAD our entire car, both the mechanical and electrical portions, but also for FEA to ensure our parts are safe and will be able to withstand the necessary forces while keeping weights low for performance.

Overall, we highly recommend Solidworks for any team that’s looking for CAD software.
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@ Engineering Students Projects Lab

As many of you already know, making an FSAE car would be nearly impossible without sponsorships. Because of this, we would like to start a new tradition of posting about our sponsors as a token of appreciation for all they do for us. For our first post we would like to thank .
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"Founded in 2012 with offices in Munich, New York, and Boston, SimScale is the world’s first production-ready SaaS application for simulation. By providing instant access to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) to over 150,000 users, SimScale has moved high-fidelity physics simulation technology from a complex and cost-prohibitive desktop application to a user-friendly cloud application accessible via a subscription-based pricing model."
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This year, we’re using SimScale to design our first ever undertray. With a simple user interface and cloud-based computing, their program allows our CFD testing to be faster than ever. SimScale has proven invaluable in our design process over this summer and will continue to guide our decisions throughout the entire design process.
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If you are interested in sponsoring us please email us at [email protected] or give us a DM. We would be more than happy to give more details on the benefits of sponsoring us.
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