![]() “In addition to proving to ourselves that we could do it, we had to prove to the university that we are still worthy of putting their name on the car.” ![]() “It was important to us to get that recognition from the university,” says junior plastics engineering major Ryan Tangney, club vice president and powertrain lead for the project. ![]() Membership has rebounded to about 50 students this year, and at the Student Leadership Awards in April, the club won the “Rising River Hawks Award,” which recognizes a student organization that has demonstrated the greatest amount of growth and promise. “It’s a valuable experience that you can put on your résumé, and it proves that you’re taking what you learned in the classroom and applying it to a project outside the classroom,” says senior mechanical engineering major Garrett Perry, the team’s chief engineer.Īs club president his sophomore and junior years, Perry helped hold River Hawk Racing together during the remote virtual days of the pandemic. The four-day event caps a yearlong challenge to design and build a formula-style, open-wheel vehicle, a process that teaches students all aspects of the automotive industry, from research, manufacturing and testing to marketing, management and finances. ![]() River Hawk Racing is heading to Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan, on May 15 to compete in a Formula SAE competition for the first time since 2018. River Hawk Racing Vice President Ryan Tangney, a plastics engineering major, works on the team's car in the North Campus garage. ![]()
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