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.
Boomer Rocket Team
Captain: Erica King
Chief Engineer: Alex Speed
Advisor: Dr.Thomas Hays
The Boomer 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.
Chem-E Car
Captain: Samuel Feher
Advisor: Dr. Jie Gao
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: Santiago Mazuera
Co-Captain: Chloe Harwood
Advisor: Dr. Jeff Volz
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
Program Manager: Santiago Mazuera
Chief Engineer: Christopher Hughes
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Hays
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: Alex Arment
Advisor: Dr. Chad Davis
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: Devon Alcorn
Advisor: Dr. Caleb Fulton
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.
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Sooner Off Road
Co-Captain: Hailey Ricks
Co-Captain: Brad Woolery
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Dalton
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: James Pannell
Advisor: Dr. Scott Harvey
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: Ryan Cowdrey
Co-Captain: William Kasko
Chief Engineer: Justin Porter
Advisor: Dr. Zahed Siddique
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.
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Sooner Rover Team
Captain: Noah Over
Advisor: Dr. David Miller
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: Connor Casey
Advisor: Dr. Jeff Volz
The Steel Bridge Team designs, fabricates, and constructs a 1:10 scaled steel bridge to compete in the National Student Steel Bridge Competition.
