Promoting engineering excellence amongst students, the Formula Student competition challenges universities across the world to design, build, market and ultimately compete as a team with a small single seat racing car.  It aims to give students a taste of the ‘real life’ industry challenges they can expect to encounter upon graduation.

This year’s winner of the Bosch sponsored Skidpan Award, which seeks to identify the team that can master a ‘Figure of 8’ manoeuvre in the quickest time possible, was the team from the University of Applied Science in Graz.

Bosch is committed to supporting the aims of such competitions, which seek to invest in the future development of tomorrow’s engineers.  Commenting on Bosch’s involvement, Communications Manager, Beverley Daniels, said: “Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of our involvement with the Formula Student programme is that we are helping to provide students with practical hands-on engineering experience in a competitive environment - away from the classroom - which will be invaluable to them as they look to develop their careers in future.”

Formula Student is run by the IMechE, the global voice for mechanical engineering, which supports a vast range of engineering education initiatives across schools and universities. It has over 75,000 members in 120 countries and represents mechanical engineers involved in a diversity of fields such as the automotive, rail, aerospace, medical, power and construction industries to name a few. 

Formula Student usually forms part of the students’ academic studies, and culminates in a competition where teams from all over the world come together to race and compete against each other. Restrictions are placed on the car frame and engine so the students’ knowledge, creativity, and imagination are tested. FS is backed by the Government-supported Learning Grid initiative which recognises the project’s outstanding contribution to engineering education and the promotion of engineering careers to young people, visit www.learninggrid.co.uk

Bosch media enquiries:

Chris Wakley / David Eden
Automotive PR
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7494 8050
Email: cwakley@automotivepr.com / deden@automotivepr.com

Bosch OE enquiries:

Beverley Daniels
Communications Manager
Robert Bosch Limited
Tel: +44 (0) 1895 878155
Email: beverley.daniels@uk.bosch.com