Presentation of the New MotoMaqLabUc3m Team
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The MotoMaqLabUc3m at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has presented the new team that will represent the University at the Motostudent 2016 competition; thirtyfour universities from around the world will be participating in the contest. During the event, which took place on Friday, October 30th on the Leganés campus and which was attended by the president of UC3M, Juan Romo, the prototype of the racing motorcycle designed by the MotoMaqLabUc3m team for last year’s Motostudent competition was on display.
The racing motorcycle is designed and built entirely by university students under the supervision of professors from the department of Mechanical Engineering. The new generation of students who make up the 2015/2016 division are currently working on the new project that will represent UC3M in October of 2016, and which they hope to unveil early next year.
The MotoMaqLabUC3M team is constituted as a nonprofit association of students and is registered with the proper authorities. Its goals are educational and it is dedicated to design, simulation, construction and competition in the world of motorcycling. It began in 2009 in UC3M’s Escuela Politécnica Superior (EPS – School of Engineering) and is made up of students who are in the final years of their engineering degrees or working on master’s or postgraduate degrees.
“We are grateful for the institutional support we receive and also for the support of our sponsors, which allow us to convert our projects into a reality”, says the team’s technical director, Raúl Key Sánchez, a member of the MAQLAB research group (Síntesis, Análisis, Modelado y Simulación de Máquinas y Mecanismos en Ingeniería Mecánica – Synthesis, Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of Machines and Mechanisms in Mechanical Engineering). “Currently the new team for 2015/16 is working hard to try to set the bar high, and we hope we can surprise everyone,” he states.
“This biennial competition is celebrating its fourth season and has been consolidated as an important mechanical engineering project,” comments tenured Juan Carlos García Prada, head of the MAQLAB together with UC3M professor Cristina Castejón. “Facing the challenge of designing a racing motorcycle every two years, following required specifications, prepares the student and the team to deal with the challenges presented by the industrial world they are going to moving in, which leads to the adaptation of theory to practice”. In addition, professors Higinio Rubio and Jesús Meneses are the cornerstones to successfully carrying out the students’ proposals for models and mechanical design using the latest 3D modeling and simulation technology, as well as creating a rapid prototype by means of 3D printers.
Motostudent is a competition that is promoted by the Moto Engineering Foundation and TechnoPark MotorLand. It presents the participants with the challenge of designing, building and competing with a prototype racing motorcycle. The final test will take place at the Circuito de Aragón Motorland (Aragón Motorland Racetrack) during the first week of October in 2016, in two categories: gasoline (with a 250 cc fourstroke engine), and fully electric.
The students who participate in this competition must demonstrate their capacity to create and design a racing motorcycle over a period of three semesters. To do so, they must apply in a real project the knowledge they have acquired during their training as engineers, while competing with other university teams from around the world.
Further information: http://motomaqlabuc3m.com/