SOUTHFIELD-Lawrence Technological University's five Blue Devil Motorsports teams will fan out across the nation in the weeks ahead as their 2024 competition seasons begin.

The teams drew a crowd of over 200 people to see this year's competition vehicles at the official Blue Devil Motorsports unveiling event, held Tuesday at the Buell Building on LTU's Southfield campus.

LTU President Tarek Sobh, Provost Richard Heist, and Vice President for Research Nabil Grace, who is also Dean of the LTU College of Engineering, offered congratulatory remarks and wished the teams well in this year's competition events. "I'm incredibly and immensely proud of you," Sobh told the students, families, and sponsors who attended the unveiling.

All but one of the teams compete in collegiate racing and vehicle design events sponsored by SAE, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers.

The teams unveiling new vehicles Tuesday and their coming competitions were:

* SAE Aero Design, which is building a five-foot-long cargo aircraft that will compete in an international event, SAE Aero Design West, April 12-14 in Van Nuys, Calif.

* SAE Baja, which is building an off-road vehicle, which will compete in Williamsport, Pa. May 16-19.

* SAE Formula Electric, which is building an electric-powered Indy-style race car, which will compete at New Hampshire Motor Speedway April 29-May 2.

* Formula SAE, which will compete at Michigan International Speedway May 8-11/

* The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, an event for autonomous vehicles sponsored by a defense industry consortium and held May 31-June 3 at Oakland University in Rochester.

Students provided details about their vehicles to the crowd. For example, team members said the SAE Formula Electric vehicle uses a 500-volt, 5.1-kilowatt-hour electric motor, capable of an 83 mph top speed and a zero to 60 mph time of 5.29 seconds. The Formula SAE team, meanwhile, has as its power plant a 600-cc alcohol-burning Yamaha motorcycle engine.

For more information on Blue Devil Motorsports and its competitive teams, visit www.ltu.edu/motorsports.

Lawrence Technological Universityis one of only 13 private, technological, comprehensive doctoral universities in the United States. Located in Southfield, Mich., LTU was founded in 1932 and offers more than 100 programs through its Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Business and Information Technology, Engineering, and Health Sciences, as well as Specs@LTU as part of its growing Center for Professional Development. PayScale lists Lawrence Tech among the nation's top 11 percent of universities for alumni salaries. Forbes and The Wall Street Journal rank LTU among the nation's top 10 percent. U.S. News and World Report list it in the top tier of the best Midwest colleges. Students benefit from small class sizes and a real-world, hands-on, "theory and practice" education with an emphasis on leadership. Activities on Lawrence Tech's 107-acre campus include more than 60 student organizations and NAIA varsity sports.

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