Team Report

BOSCH Team STRATOS, BIT

• Team STRATOS is the team formed during the month of March 2009 by the
students of Bangalore Institute of Technology primarily to take part in the
BAJA SAEINDIA 2010 Competition.

• The team is named Stratos as a tribute to the legendary rally car, Lancia
Stratos which won all the rally championships in which it took part during
the 70’s and 80’s.

• 20 experienced, skillful and dedicated students were hand-picked

from the 185 member strong SAE-India B.I.T collegiate club members to form
this team. It includes students from 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the mechanical
engineering branch of our college.

• Team Stratos has students who are good with their automotive basics and the
team collectively has skills related to building a car, modeling (through
Catia, Autocad, Solid edge, Maya, ProE), analyzing (through
ANSYS/ADAMS/IPG Carmaker), marketing, managing (through MS Project),
machine shop and many others.

• All the 20 members were inducted into the Baja team after following a
methodical and rigorous selection process which asked them to present
an SOP and solutions for the given problem statement. This process was
authenticated by the team faculty advisor (Dr.T.Jagadish, Professor).

• It is one of the only 4 colleges from Karnataka and the only one to
represent Bangalore.

• The Team members also formed the core of the enormously successful SAE-
BIT Collegiate Club. It has the reputation for being the model for all other
SAE Clubs.

• Members of the team have also been engaged in many automotive

projects as a part of their studies.

• Good functional division of work is our forté. Once the divisions were formed,
the team members were given choices to select their division of interest and
work on that basis. This structure was most prevalent in the design stages.
During the fabrication stages, the roles were modified with team members
regrouping to complete different aspects of the car.

• Real-life Practical exposure is what BAJA Participation is all about. We can

now safely say that we do justice to the title we possess, ‘mechanical
engineers’. We have in the process become more industry ready.
 • And it’s not just about instilling the engineer in us, per se. It is like
undergoing a complete practical course in management, design, and
professionalism, to name a few. Making each one of us ‘complete’ individuals.

Team Members: (All from B.E.-Mechanical)

From 2006-2010 batch:

1) Manish O. Team Captain

2) Mokshith.S.N. Design Head & Co-Driver

3) Vishwas.M.S. Race Engg. Head & Main Driver

4) Bipul Kumar Singh Technical Head

5) Arpit Narendra Financial Head

6) Sundar Ramnath B.R.Fabrication Head

7) Karthik N. Marketing Head

8) Khushroo Siraj Inventory Manager

9) Somaiah K. A. Design Engineer #1

10)Sushant Shetty Design Engineer #2

11)Harisha B.S. Technical Engineer #1

12)Febin K. V. M. Technical Engineer #2

13)Parno Roy Choudhury Technical Engineer #3

14)Gautam Desai Race Engineer #1

15)Kundan Lal Race Engineer #2

16)Ashish Baidyanathan Marketing Exec. #1

From 2007-2011 batch:

17)Prashant K.J. Marketing Exec. #2

18)Rajesh S. Design Engineer #3

19)Rahul B. Maintenance Exec.

From 2008-2012 batch:

20)Raunak Sheth Marketing Exec. #3

Faculty advisor :

Dr. T. Jagadish, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engg., BIT.

BAJA SAEINDIA 2010 Competition

 The Baja SAE (pronounced ‘BA-HA S.A.E’) is an International level

competition where engineering students as a team are tasked to design,
build, test, promote and race an off-road vehicle that will survive the severe
challenges of rough terrain. Hence testing their engineering skills to the
limit.

 The vehicle has to be built according to several strictly enforced

standards of fabrication, design etc and will have to undergo a series of
stringent static and dynamic tests before competing in the main endurance
event.

 The SAE Mini Baja competition originated at the University of South Carolina
in 1976. Since then the competition has grown to six competitions: three in
North America and one each in Brazil, Korea and South Africa with over 500
entries.

 With the growth of the series, corporations have come to recognize that
students with Baja SAE on their resumes are premier candidates for their
engineering positions.

 BAJA was started in India in 2007 with the event being held in Pithampur,
Indore in December 2007. It was subsequently held in January 2009 with 57
teams contending.

 In its 3rd year, The BAJA SAEINDIA - ASIA 2010 was conducted from 29th
-31st January 2010 at the NATRAX off-road race track facility, under
aegis of NATRIP in Pithampur.

 The event started out with 155 teams, of which, 80 were shortlisted for the
physical leg of the competition.

Event Outcome
• We scored 496 points in total out of 600. Good for a team that didn't
complete endurance due to an unexpected gearbox mounting failure. Our all
India ranking was 36th place.

• Our car was used to inaugurate the event as our team had already won over
the judges for having the Best Design Report among the 80 teams. The
 unveiling was performed by Mr. Arvind Jadhav, The Union Minister of
Industries, and the most prominent amongst the guests of honour.

• On the BAJA 2010 HR meet(Placement drive) that followed the event,

various team members got selected through the rounds in companies like JK
Tyre, MSC, Mahindra&Mahindra, Anand automotive systems, Cummins, etc.
Finally 5 of us got placed, receiving a total package in excess of Rs.16Lac.

• The pristine quality of work was so much apparent in the car that we were
asked time and again whether we had received help from the R&D unit of
BOSCH.

• The general belief was that the car was got done by professionals. Partly
true.. we think of ourselves as the professionals!

BIAE ATV University Challenge

• The BIAE(Bangalore Intl' Auto Expo) ATV University Challenge

took place at Palace Grounds, Bangalore from the 11th to 14th of
this March 2010.

• Our car was performing in the endurance run against some of our most
fierce BAJA 2010 competitors .

• We had carried out some serious testing of our car at DIRT MANIA,
Kanakpura Road. We did have some issues like problems with the front
knuckle, the starter, the carburetor, etc. But we knew that it was all a
part of the game and nothing that we couldn’t sort out.

• The 30 lap (21Km) endurance race was held on the 14th March 2010.
The track was more grueling than the BAJA track because of the steep
inclines and dense slush.

Event Outcome
• We finished the race as the FIRST RUNNERS UP at the ATV University
Challenge.

• We received a trophy and a sum of Rs. 30,000/- as the prize for

winning 2nd place.
What lies ahead for the team

• The team has wowed to stay together till the end of our courses
and then pass on the baton to our juniors. Team STRATOS will
reappear at successive BAJA events and create more waves.

• We plan to take our car to an off-road test-track again and see what
it is truly capable of.

• We are also expecting similar ATV based events in the near future and
are hoping to win those too.

Our sponsors

• Title Sponsor:

BOSCH Ltd., Adugodi, Bangalore.

• Associate sponsors:

1. Laser Services, Pune (For financial support. Our 1st major

sponsor.)
2. Lucas-TVS Auto-Electricals Ltd., Chennai (For financial and
technical support)
3. Mr. A. K. Sasindran, India Bulls, Gurgaon (For personal financial
contribution.)
4. Magod Lasers, Bangalore (For laser cutting services)
5. Burma Automobiles, Bangalore (For financial assistance)
6. Maskeenia fasteners (For special SAE graded fasteners made to
our specifications)
7. ACTIVE Ltd.(ANSYS Partner) (For Financial support)
8. Bangalore Machinery & Manufacturing(BMM) Ltd. (For technical
support)
9. Down Town Works (For technical support in making custom
exhaust)
10. Pacer Yamaha (For technical support)
11. Dirt Mania (For technical support and permission to use their dirt
track)
Support from college

• Most of all, the entire management, teaching and non-teaching

faculty of our esteemed institution, BANGALORE INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY, have had the greatest role in making our car to
come to life.

• The management is responsible for the majority of the financial

assistance.

• The governing body, Vokkaliggara Sangha has put a lot of faith in

us with the garage facility and financial aid at crucial times.

• This makes each and every one of us proud to be a BITan.