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The student-run nonprofit organization revealed its latest sun-powered project on Saturday, July 1st<\/SUP>, which will compete in the 2017 World Solar Challenge. As the latest car in Stanford\u2019s long history of solar racing, the team hopes Sundae will be poised to follow the success of its predecessors.<\/P><\/p>\n The Stanford Solar Car team<\/A> has spent more than a year designing, building and testing its new vehicle with tools such as Siemens integrated product design software, NX. While working with NX software<\/A>, the team scaled down its vehicle to accommodate rule changes for this year\u2019s World Solar Challenge.<\/P> Sundae is now the smallest of any of Stanford\u2019s solar electric vehicles to date. Its new design allows for four square meters of silicon solar cells. It also has an optimized, aggressive aerodynamic body, even though the size of the mechanical components remain the same size.<\/P> Fitting so much hardware into a compact vehicle was a testament to the mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and design talent present at Stanford University. The team had help from Siemens PLM Software using NX to fine-tune the designs it iterated on using SolidWorks.<\/P><\/p>\n \u201cThe precision of detail we needed for our aerobody molds<\/A> was too fine for SolidWorks, so without NX, I’m not sure what we would have done,\u201d said Kelsey Josund, President of the Stanford\u2019s Solar Car team currently perusing her Master\u2019s degree in Computer science.<\/P><\/p>\n \u201cDuring the aero design cycle, the team used NX’s deformation<\/A> abilities and drew scribe lines into the final mold cycles,\u201d Josund added. \u201cAnd although the team ultimately didn\u2019t have any parts that needed it, team members experimented with analyzing designs in Fibersim<\/A>.\u201d<\/P><\/p>\n The experience hasn\u2019t only benefitted team members, who will soon be looking for jobs post-graduation.<\/A> Josund said the team\u2019s younger members also gained valuable experience using NX.<\/P> \u201cWhen they are on the leadership team in the 2018-19 cycle, they will be able to confidently use NX and teach<\/A> new members how to use it.\u201d<\/P>
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