February has been a short but packed month here at FRUCD. We had many amazing outreach events this month, including lectures, company events, and socials! 

Dr. J. Zhou from SAE International gave an amazing lecture to our team on AV and EV reliability. At this meeting our teams had the opportunity to learn about autonomous and electric vehicles as we move towards a future with more sustainable transportation. It is always exciting to learn more about these topics in commercial and racing vehicles and how we can apply them to our learning here at FRUCD!

Our team is back from break and more driven than ever! Our subteams have taken this month to make amazing progress on many different manufacturing projects, and FE12 is slowly being pieced together by all subteams. 

The team has just returned from winter break feeling refreshed and ready to start work again. While juggling finals and the impending break, our members got started on the manufacturing stage of FE12. 

Thank you for all the support on our Fall Into Gear November Crowdfund! We raised $6100 over the month, surpassing our goal. Thank you so much to everyone who donated!

This month has kept us busy with outreach events and design progress! We recently launched our Brand 2.0 on Instagram. We are aiming to keep our brand image consistent with new fonts, colors, and themes; check it out!

The UC Davis Involvement Fair occurred on October 9th on the Memorial Union Quad. Along with many other clubs, we recruited a lot of new members for this season. Our successful recruitment season has led us to secure 177 active members this year! Thanks to everyone who showed an interest in our team! 

This month was busy for our whole team! With the fall quarter in session and members back on campus, there is so much to look forward to and reflect on. Here’s a quick reminder that we are now halfway through the design phase! After the design review early in the month, the team is finalizing design decisions and aiming to complete all CAD projects by the next design review on October 12th. 

Watch our September design review!

This past month we’ve made the important decision to make data-driven designs the teamwide focus of how we run things here at FRUCD. We are taking full advantage of last season’s data to create a lighter, faster, and more efficient car. Our teamwide efforts ensure that data analysis improves design concepts as efficiently as possible.

The 2024 FSAE competition has ended with successful results for our team! For the first time since 2019, we have passed all technical inspections and competed in all four events. Last year we ranked second to last, but this year has set an upward trajectory with our team ranking 22 out of 79 teammates. Congratulations to all team members for their hard work this year paying off! We have improved so much over the past year and we greatly look forward to what our next competition has in store.

Welcome to the April newsletter! FRUCD has been doing such great work this past month, and there's so much to talk about with all the events and achievements we've had.

I guess it's best to start with the elephant in the room...

IT'S BEAUTIFUL, ISN'T IT?

We are so proud to have made this car - we not only finished manufacturing the car, but also in record time! This is the first time since the pandemic that we have been able to finish our car by Picnic Day! 

Welcome to the March FRUCD newsletter, this month has been super productive and we can't wait to share with you all of our progress leading up to Picnic Day! This spring break, many of our members stayed in Davis to help continue manufacturing the car, assembling some components together.

To begin on the operations side, we have not only been working on the newsletter, but also on merch orders! We have exciting new designs to share out to the world, so keep an eye out for some of our FRUCD merch. ;)