SAE Collegiate Design Series: Baja SAE®
Mike Schmidt Memorial Iron Team Award
| Award Title: | Mike Schmidt Memorial Iron Team Award |
| Sponsored by: | Schmidt Family, Marty Gordon, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Awarded for: | Perseverance, engineering excellence and competitive success as demonstrated by earning the highest cumulative point score at the three US/Canada Baja SAE events in a single competition season. The award is given in memory of Mike Schmidt - a founding member of the "resurrected" RIT Mini-Baja team. Mike was extremely motivated by the Mini-Baja program at RIT and was a driving force behind RIT's first participation at all three North American Mini-Baja events in 1999. Mike's premature passing at age 21 in February 2001 was a great loss to all Mini-Baja teams. |
| Award Classes: | 1st Place - Plaque 2nd Place - Plaque 3rd Place - Plaque Honorable Mention - Certificate (any team competing in all 3 events) |
| Award Criteria: | The award is presented to the team that BOTH (1) competes in all three sanctioned Baja SAE events in the US/Canada [previously known as East, Midwest, West] AND (2) The highest normalized point total in all three events. |
| Award Procedure: | The award is based on the cumulative point total in the three US/Canada events in a single competition season. If a school enters more than one vehicle in a competition the point total for the vehicle having the highest point total per event will be used. For example, if Car #1 earns 790 points and Car #2 earns 850 points at Baja SAE Gearville -- the points from Car #2 will be used to calculate the total points for the award. If at Baja SAE Motoland Car #1 earns 900 points and Car #2 earns 500 points - the points from Car #1 will be used to calculate the total points for the award. Simply put, the higher scoring cars points at each event will be used. If the maximum point score that can be earned at a competition is other than 1000, then each teams earned points will be normalized on a basis of 1000 points. |
| Award Presentation: | The award will be presented by a sponsor or a representative of the sponsors at the final US/Canada Baja SAE event of the season. |
| Previous Winners: | 2001 - RIT (1st), UCF (2nd), NC A&T (3rd) 2002 - RIT, Mich. Tech., Georgia Tech. 2003 - Univ. Mich. Dearborn, RIT, USF 2004 - USF, RIT, Queens Univ. 2005 - ETS, Univ. Mich. Ann Arbor, Auburn 2006 - Queens Univ., USF, Mich. State Univ. |
| Sponsor Contact: | Marty Gordon - RIT - 716-913-2912, megite@rit.edu |
