A: The purpose of "Formula Car Competition for Chinese College Students" (FSAE for short) is to make a long-term talent pool for the overall development of China's automobile industry. China Hyundai Motor Industry started from 1983 for more than 20 years, and its accumulation has been basically completed. It has developed from a backward country in the automobile industry to the largest automobile producer and new car consumer in the world in 2009. In the future, China's automobile industry has set a goal: to realize the transformation of automobile industry from a manufacturing power to an industrial power in ten years or even longer, and the difference between a big country and a powerful country is "technology"! The basis of "technology" is "talent"! The cultivation of talents is not only the task of colleges and universities, but also the responsibility of enterprises and society.
The accumulation of talents is a developing and long-term process. The "Formula Car Competition for Chinese College Students" is to build a social platform for talent training. The construction of this platform is to train and select student talents for the automobile industry faster and better, so that they can integrate into the industry faster. Promote the transformation of the existing education model in China through practice.
This activity has been carried out in the United States, Japan, Germany and other developed countries for many years and has become a normal training measure. Even in non-automotive mainstream areas such as Thailand and Sri Lanka.
This competition will improve students' comprehensive ability in five aspects, such as design, manufacturing, cost control, business marketing, communication and coordination, and comprehensively improve students' comprehensive quality through all-round assessment. These students will surely emerge as the backbone of China's automobile industry in the future! This is also the greatest significance of the activity. 2. Why did the first "Formula Car Competition for Chinese University Students (FSAE)" only see the list of 20 teams?
A: Since last year, we have extensively solicited opinions and suggestions from all walks of life. The "Formula Car Contest for Chinese College Students" is quite complicated in organization, management, standard setting and financial operation. Foreign countries have a history of more than ten years, and it is the first time for our country to hold this competition. We need to accumulate experience from the organizer-China Automotive Engineering Society, to the competition operation team, and then to the student institutions. In this process of accumulating experience, if we want to expand the scale, it is feasible to accumulate experience and successfully complete the first competition, then sum up our work experience and then expand the competition. After the third and fourth sessions, we will gradually liberalize the number of participating institutions, and may even realize socialized long-term development planning.
Because our hosts and organizers need a time and process to accumulate experience. Therefore, the organizing committee agreed to limit the number of teams participating in the first competition to 20. 3. Why is the name of the contest "Formula Car Contest for Chinese College Students"? Why do the words "Formula Racing" appear here?
A: According to the international development trend, the United States, the founding country of this event, named this event "Formula SAE", abbreviated as "FSAE". "SAE" is an organization of engineers in the automobile industry, which is literally translated as "Association of Automobile Engineers" internationally. It is a purely technical industry organization, and the contest founded by this organization is called "FSAE". Today, "FSAE" has become an international brand. The United States, Japan, Germany and other host countries call this. Actually, it should be the Formula Competition of China Automotive Engineering Society in China. But now it is named "Formula Car Contest for Chinese College Students" because the target group of the contest is college students, which more intuitively reflects that the contestants are college students. In fact, there is a certain gap between English names and Chinese names. 4. If some media want to report "Formula Car Contest for Chinese College Students", through what channels should they apply?
A: The Formula Car Contest for Chinese College Students is a highly public welfare event. First, advocate public welfare; Second, promote openness. Because this competition is not a closed competition, under the principle of voluntariness, all media have the right to pay attention and will not be exclusive to the media. As for how to apply, standard rules may be formed in the future, but there is no need to apply for things in the near future. The Organizing Committee will actively provide detailed public materials that the media are willing to report, but it cannot provide confidential materials. 5. "Formula Car Contest for Chinese College Students" will be held on 20 10 and 10, so what are the contestants doing now?
A: It takes one year for the a:FSAE contest to be officially held. The process of entering the competition is a very tense year for a student. First of all, from the design link, the students of the racing team need to draw drawings and write design reports. I have been preparing for this job for the first three months. At present, students are comparing schemes, communicating with each other, carrying out technical exchanges between colleges and universities, and at the same time starting post-production research, such as: parts price inquiry, contact with production units, parts procurement direction and a series of other issues. Although the level of 20 colleges and universities is different, the progress of each school will be different, but the preparations are in full swing, and even some schools can't even drag on the Spring Festival holiday for a few days. Many students actively complete these topics at home and cherish the opportunity of this competition. 6. The cost of an F/KLOC-0 racing car is as high as tens of millions of yuan, but according to the news released by the organizing committee of the competition, the highest cost of manufacturing a racing car in each school is only 80,000 yuan. Can such a racing car be called Formula One?
A: Actually, if you want to build a car, 80,000 RMB should be enough, because you don't need tooling. But the real racing car on F 1 is a collection of high-tech and new materials. The investment of this kind of racing car from research and development, experiment to manufacturing is huge. What we students do is only the appearance of "open center driving" in formula racing, and the actual technology and material content are far from the real formula racing. But after all, it is an imitation of the equation. Even if some ordinary parts can be used instead of new materials, the car body can be solved by some simple technologies. I don't think 80 thousand yuan seems enough. The core purpose of setting the figure of 80 thousand yuan is to temper students' cost control ability, because students will eventually enter the automobile industry, and the designed cars should be affordable for ordinary people and cost-effective. Therefore, the purpose of the competition is to shape students' cost consciousness, not how much they spend on designing and manufacturing luxury racing cars, so that students can design the best design scheme that meets the cost requirements after entering the workplace. In fact, the most important feature of Formula Racing is the convertible mid-cab racing, so the vehicles that China college students take part in Formula Racing can be called Formula Racing according to their appearance characteristics. 7. Will the spare parts in the cost report refer to foreign competitions, and will the government set a unified price standard to eliminate the influence of regional differences on the cost of racing cars?
A: This is a good question. Spare parts have a standard reference price, so that everyone can complete the cost budget under a public platform, which is a common practice abroad. However, China did not intend to do this in previous competitions, because there is regional disparity in China, which is normal. These regional differences will guide the investment behavior of the industry and will shift to areas with lower manufacturing costs. It is a good thing for students to understand the differences in cost research due to different regions, so as to avoid the lack of competition caused by differences in future work. However, with the development of the future competition, the organizing committee may set a reference cost for the competition to let the contestants know the rationality of the budget under the standard of this reference cost. 8. Engine selection is an important part of vehicle design, but the first "Formula Car Competition for Chinese University Students" (FSAE for short) unified the use of engines. Will the organizers consider relaxing the restrictions on engines in the future "Formula Car Competition for Chinese College Students"?
A: First of all, why should the engine be unified in the first session? It is because only a few universities with advantages in China have the ability and financial resources to complete the competition. In order to balance the difficulty of the competition, attract more colleges and universities with different strengths to participate in the competition, and reduce the cost of participating in the competition, thus causing widespread concern of the society for the first "Formula Car Competition for Chinese College Students". The organizing Committee decided to sponsor the engine of the first competition.
In the future, with the gradual maturity of the competition, in order to reflect the degree of differentiation between teams, the organizing Committee may not provide engines, or it may selectively provide engines. With the development of the competition, the organizing Committee will eventually release the restrictions on engines, which is an inevitable trend. 9. Can the Organizing Committee provide opportunities for team face-to-face communication before and after the competition, not just on the day of the competition?
A: The organizing committee very much hopes to provide opportunities for face-to-face communication between teams and try its best to provide a platform for face-to-face communication among students from each team. Moreover, during the competition, in order to facilitate the communication between teams, the organizing committee will not prohibit students from observing teams and exchanging technical knowledge. So as to achieve self-discovery, self-cognition, and improve the effect of * * *. 10. The first Formula Car Competition for Chinese University Students (FSAE for short) restricted the nationalities of the participating teams. Will foreign teams be allowed to sign up for the competition in the future?
A: This is a very good question, and it is also an aspect that we are facing great pressure after launching the Formula Car Competition for Chinese College Students. China, as one of the industries with the most obvious trend of globalization, should be open to the outside world. China cannot live without the world, and the world cannot live without China. From this perspective, we should allow foreign teams to participate. However, considering that it is the first time to organize the Formula Car Competition for Chinese University Students, the organizing committee aimed at internal training for the first two sessions in order to protect and cultivate the enthusiasm and confidence of China university students, and then gradually opened the registration scope of the competition. Recently, some countries indicated that they would come to China to participate in the competition, but all of them were politely declined by the organizing committee. At the same time, the organizing Committee offered to invite them to watch and guide our game. The Organizing Committee will always follow the principle of gradual development, becoming bigger and stronger, and organize the "Formula Car Competition for Chinese College Students".