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A University of New Mexico alumnus sped into a new job in August as an aerodynamics design engineer with the McLaren Formula 1 team in Woking, England. Tiger Lee, who graduated from UNM in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, has...

The Formula Society of Automotive Engineering (FSAE) program at The University of New Mexico has recently received a large donation from prominent local restaurant owners. The $25,000 gift, from Dorothy and Larry Rainosek, will go toward the general...

The saying that it’s about the journey, not the destination, would be an apt way to think about The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineering (FSAE) LOBOmotorsports team. In June, the team competed in the Formula SAE...

The well-known saying “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” might be an accurate way to sum up this year’s UNM LOBOmotorsports team’s performance in the latest international contest of collegiate electric cars. The University of New Mexico’s Formula...

There is a quiet hum in the Dana C. Wood FSAE Racing Lab and Garage these days. Not only is it the end of the semester, but it’s also crunch time. Competition is about a month away, and there is a lot left to do. Since 1998, The University of New...

The University of New Mexico Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) LOBOmotorsports team took top 10 honors — including a first-place finish — in the finals of the virtual FSAE Knowledge Event held earlier this month. UNM’s electric vehicle (EV)...

For two decades, The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team has been designing, building and racing a Formula-style car for competition in an international contest. Students spend an intense year working on the machine,...

For most spectators, everything about racing seems big—large and powerful motors, oversized tires, loud sounds, fast speeds. But as The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team has recently learned, racing actually ...

As members of a small but well-established program, The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) team members always know it’s a bit of an uphill battle competing against some of the largest and best-financed programs in...

For the University of New Mexico’s LOBOMotorSports team, it’s been a sweet few years. The team did well at the Formula SAE competitions, and seemed to do better each year. In 2014, the team placed 11th overall. In 2013, they took 12th place, and the team...