SunSwift.com
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UNSW Solar Racing Team (UNSW SRT) - Home
Description
Sunswift is a full-scale, multi-disciplinary, student-led engineering project. Students from a range of faculties from engineering to business form the UNSW SRT. They volunteer their time and skills to fund, design, build, equip and drive a state-of-the-art solar-powered car. With guidance from the University of NSW and with the support of the project's technical partners and sponsors the project provides an unprecedented theoretical-learning and hands-on experience for university students.
Sunswift was the brainchild of final-year electrical engineering student, Byron Kennedy, who in 1995 was searching for an exciting thesis project. He assembled a team of engineering students, acquired a defunct racing car from a rival solar racing team, and began the process of readying the car to race in the 1996 World Solar Challenge race from Darwin to Adelaide.
Since then, Sunswift has been the flagship engineering project within the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW. Over the past 10 years, hundreds of students have poured sweat, determination, hope and trepidation into the design, construction, testing and racing of their solar vehicle. They've raced all over Australia - Darwin to Adelaide, Perth to Sydney, Sydney to Melbourne, Adelaide to Sydney - they've faced their adversaries, made new friends and learned, first-hand, about high profile engineering projects.
Languages
English
Contact
Administrative:
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- Sydney NSW
- Australia 2052
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- +61 2 9385 1111
Registrant:
- UNSW IT Services, University of NSW
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- Sydney NSW
- Australia 2052
