Students apply virtual engineering lessons toward reality via racing simulator - Office of Communications and Marketing

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Engineering know-how plays a large relation the plan of mundane car mechanics – and is measured by show connected the racetrack. Twenty-two Auburn Engineering students are taking the accidental to learn, and test, a assortment of automobile setups – and applying them to performance-based activities – via iRacing, the world’s astir fashionable virtual racing simulator.

Dubbed Auburn iRacing, the squad is simply a regular successful the eNASCAR College iRacing Series, wherever $60,000 successful scholarships are astatine involvement during the Fall 2022/Spring 2023 season, wherever virtual NASCAR Truck Series and Xfinity Series cars person been used.

"As technology advances, we spot real-life contention car teams usage simulators to hole for contention weekends,” said Reece Baham, a inferior in mechanical engineering, who serves arsenic the team’s manager of contention and pb driver. “iRacing accurately replicates the cars and physics… this allows america to get hands-on acquisition and summation an knowing of however the car works without being progressive with a real-life team.”

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