This is the presentation section, where a team’s ability to prospectively sell the vehicle to a group of judges, explain their engineering decisions in vehicle design and accounting for the prospective price of all subsystem assemblies are all tested.
• Design: The Goal is to show the relevant engineering decisions taken have been thought out and analysed, ranging from simulation or physical testing. Key design choices have been made and the team is expected to be able to present this to the judges in a clean and concise manner.
• Costing: This is to elaborate on the manufacturing processes followed by the team for their engineering system. The team is expected to justify and account for the cost of these per competition guidelines. Industry values this event as it can cover any component and is part of the procedure to getting systems designed and deployed in the real world.
• Business: Here the team must present a marketable business strategy for the weekend or amateur racing enthusiast. This can be compared to a dragon’s den style pitching process to an imaginary manufacturing firm, convincing them to buy into the team’s strategy.