Competitive Student Teams
The Rawl Engineering Practice Facility provides students with a facility that fosters collaboration, providing all the tools required to bring an idea from concept to finished product. Teams work side-by-side in open bays where classroom knowledge becomes practical experience. Students that choose to work on a team learn how to collaborate, create, compete and win. A list of these events can be found on the left side of this page underneath the navigation window and on the Experience Engineering Facebook Page.
Chem-E Car
Captain: Patrick Stevens
Email: patrick.g.stevens-1@ou.edu
Advisor: Dr. Paul Huang
Email: hll@ou.edu
Students design, build and test a small car powered by a specific chemical reaction and calibrated to carry a certain volume of water a specified distance.
Concrete Canoe
Co-Captain: Kristen Hayden
Email: kristen.hayden@ou.edu
Co-Captain: Rachel Wesson
Email: rlwesson@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Chris Ramseyer
Email: ramseyer@ou.edu
The team enters a canoe in the National Concrete Canoe Competition each year, where they design, build, document, present and race their canoe.
Crimson Skies Design/Build/Fly
Co-Captain: Kevin Murray
Email: Kevin.S.Murray-1@ou.edu
Co-Captain: Christine Greve
Email: Christine.M.Greve-1@ou.edu
Advisor: Thomas Hays
Email: thays@ou.edu
The team competes in an international engineering competition to develop an unmanned aerial system that is required to complete a series of missions, which vary from year to year.
Sooner Competitive Robotics
President: Cullen Clark
Email: cullenclark@ou.edu
Advisor: Dr. Chad Davis
Email: weeb@ou.edu
Sooner Competitive Robotics teams include the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Region 5 Robot, Mercury Remote Robot, Amercian Society for Engineering Education Two-Year, and KISS Institute for Practical Robotics Open and Aerial.
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Sooner Electric Racing
Captain: Andrew Meyer
Email: andrew.meyer49@ou.edu
Advisor: Dr. John Dyer
Email: jwdyer@ou.edu
The EV Grand Prix team works to research, design and develop electric vehicles to compete in a variety of races. Competitions take place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Learn more about SER
Sooner Off Road
Captain: Gatlin Arnold
Email: gatlin.d.arnold@ou.edu
Advisor: Christopher Dalton
Email: cdalton@ou.edu
Sooner Off Road is a relatively new team that is in its third year of competition. The team attended two national and international SAE Baja competitions with more than 100 entered teams in each.
Sooner Powered Vehicle
Captain: Cameron Heeren
Email:camheeren@ou.edu
Advisor: Dr. Kim Wolfinbarger
Email: kimw@ou.edu
The Sooner Powered Vehicle team designs, constructs and tests a vehicle for the National Americal Society of Mechanical Engineers Human Powered Vehicle competition each year. Teams engineer fast, agile, safe and innovative vehicles to compete in design, sprint, utility and endurance categories.
Sooner Racing Team
Co-Captain: Wesley Reynolds Email: wreynolds@ou.edu
Co-Captain: Samuel Faux Email: samfaux@ou.edu
Advisor: Dr. Zahed Siddique
Email: zsiddique@ou.edu
OU engineering students have designed a Formula-style race car every year since 1995, garnering numerous awards for design and performance. The team is consistently ranked among the top 10 in the world and top five in the United States.
Learn more about SRT
Sooner Rocket Team
Captain: Dane Scholeon
Email: charles.w.osborn-1@ou.edu
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Advisor: Dr. David Miller
Email: dpmiller@ou.edu
The Sooner Rocket Team does research, design, and developing of High-powered rockets for the purpose of competing against other universities. We do tasks such as programming, fiberglassing, testing of chemicals, etc.. Competitions take place nationally.
Sooner Rover Team
Co-Captain: Dane Schoelen
Co-Captain: Ashley Findley
Email: afinds@ou.edu
Advisor: Dr. David Miller
Email: dpmiller@ou.edu
The Sooner Rover Team, founded in 2015, initially competed for the National Institute of Aerospace RASC-AL Robo-Ops competition in Houston, which they won in 2016. The team continues to compete in the annual Mars Society's University Rover Challenge.
Steel Bridge
Captain: Chase Angier
Email: ou.steel.bridge@gmail.com
Advisor: Dr. Chris Ramseyer
Email: ramseyer@ou.edu
The Steel Bridge Team designs, fabricates, and constructs a 1:10 scaled steel bridge to compete in the National Student Steel Bridge Competition.
