SDU-Vikings is a student organization which competes in the world's biggest engineering competetion "Formula Student" with over 1200 participating universities.
Formula Student
The competition is separated into parts where the car runs in 4 dynamic events like classical time trials, while static events is expressed as presentations and documentation for a jury. In static events the students compete in technical knowledge, business plan and cost documentation among other things.
History
SDU Vikings have existed since 2007 and is the oldest and one of the biggest student organizations on the technical faculty of SDU. Many of the former team members now possess positions in companies as Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, Universal Robots and many more.
About SDU Vikings
- SDU Vikings competes in the largest engineering contest in the world, Formula Student.
- The team trains highly skilled engineers through practical experience under standard industry practice and interdisciplinary work.
- SDU Vikings has a lot of racing heritage and a long history of developing race cars to further improve performance every year.
- One of the largest student organizations on SDU spread on two campuses in Odense and Sønderborg with around 100 members.
Training engineers for the industry
SDU Vikings' facilities and network provides opportunities for the coming engineers through bachelor- and master projects to develop their skills in the futures cutting-edge technologies.
Practical experience with electric powertrains, high- and low-voltage system and the isolation in between. Handlings of batteries, motors, motor controllers, inverters and converters. Organizing signal monitoring and programming Battery Management Systems and other.
SDU Vikings gives the students a unique opportunity to put theory into practice.