SPEED is a collection of engineering competition teams that really just brings together a group of students that are really interested in hands-on applications. What's really cool is since it's a competition team, we're able to travel across the country and compete against international teams from all over. Designers will fly. Um, a couple years ago we won the international competition. Our competition tends to draw about 120 international teams from all over and just recently, we're in the roughly top 50% of that as well.

Anyone in any major and at any point in their education can join one of the SPEED teams, though for some SPEED teams, they fit some of the majors better than others. So a good team like "Concrete Canoe" fits civil and environmental engineering majors best though all majors are welcome.

For my team specifically, we design and construct almost all of the components for our car. So we weld the frame together, we design and put together the wiring harness, we tune and dyno the engine. Being in the SPEED program and on Formula SAE has really given me the hands-on experience that I've been craving and what companies really look for when they're hiring.

I build a lot of friendships, in terms of people helping me like understand why we do the things we do. And it's a very fun environment that you can just play and learn. My dream job is to become an automotive mechanical design engineer. So when I saw Clarkson's Formula the team, I thought that was a very good place for me to learn and do applicable skills that can help me project my career for my dream job.

I would highly recommend any incoming students to come and join a SPEED team. For me, it just gave me such a great opportunity to be able to meet other people in my major and get hands-on experience. I would never have learned a lot of things that I have without going out of my way to really explore the SPEED team opportunity.