The Team: Western Sydney Solar Team

Our Mission

Solar racing is more than a pursuit of the sun, it is a pursuit of our ideals, our aspirations, a pursuit of what our future can be. Our goal is to generate something more tangible than hope that climate change will resolve itself. Through our widespread public outreach, particularly our youth, we want to cultivate a passion, a drive to instigate change now. We've developed an unquenchable devotion to pushing the limits of efficiency and sustainability in everything we do; this is the ethos we want to share with the world.

The people who join us on our transcontinental journeys are the ones who don't see limits, only visions of tomorrow; they obsess over every detail required to make it happen. We have engineered our cars with the very best of what we have available and with the very best of ourselves, to be a road sign pointing us towards what our automotive future can be.

By demonstrating the capabilities of today, we hope the possibilities of tomorrow will inspire and captivate the imaginations of everyone we reach. We only hope that you can join us on our mission, and that we can work together on our visions for the future.

Management

B. Industrial Design

What do you enjoy about the Solar Car Team?

"Having the opportunity to lead a diverse team to develop the next generation of transportation."

Brad Nadalini

Team Manager

B. Mechanical Engineering (Hons)

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"The heated discussions while huddled over a whiteboard"

Divyam Shah

Systems and Interface Lead

B. ICT (Adv.), B. Applied Data Science

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Working on interesting things with cool people."

Jonathan Allen

Strategy Lead & Safety Officer

B. Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering

What is something you like about Solar Car?

"I love the team environment and the friendships I've made through it, I also really like the different opportunities being on the team provides."

Nina Walters

Project Officer

Mechanical

B. Mechatronics

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Looking at colorful ANSYS lines."

Rui Chang

Mechanical Lead

B. Mechanical Engineering

What do you enjoy about the Solar Car Team?

"The experience is unmatched. Everything is done by industry standards and utilise world class software and manufacturing processes that are rarely found anywhere else."

Alex Grima

Mechanical Engineer

B. Mechanical Engineering (Hons)

What do you enjoy about the Solar Car Team?

"Being able to work with such an amazing group of people to design parts and then manufacture them and see them come to life is such a great experience."

Andrew Grima

Mechanical Engineer

B. Industrial Design

Why do you enjoy about the Solar Car Team?

"Working as a team pushing engineering boundaries to be the fastest solar car racing team in the world. "

Aaron Sharman

Mechanical Engineer

B. Mechanical Engineering

Why do you enjoy about the Solar Car Team?

"I like how the design philosophy is very Min-Maxed to the extent that the regulations allow. "

Peter Duke

Mechanical Engineer

Diploma of engineering

What is something you like about Solar Car?

"I love the people within the team, everyone feels like a mate and the recurring team hangouts are some of the best adventures!"

Tyler Morris

Mechanical Engineer

B. Industrial Design (Hons)

What is something you like about Solar Car?

"Getting to work with cutting edge equipment and seeing your design go from ideation to creation "

Michael Moloney

Mechanical Engineer

Brandon Shennan

Mechanical Engineer

B. Industrial Design

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Getting hands on work assembling the cars, and seeing them drive."

Daniel Pearce

Mechanical Engineer

B. Mechanical Engineering

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Annoying the aero team"

PVC Pat

Chief Chassis Tester

Electrical

B. Electrical Engineering

What do you enjoy about the Solar Car Team?

"Seeing something you design and build come to life."

Peter Mitchell

Electrical Lead

B. Electrical Engineering

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Empowering the team."

Extension Cord

Electrical Lead

B. Electrical Engineering

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Solving problems, it's very challenging, but also very rewarding"

Birdie Kingston

Embedded Systems

B. Electrical Engineering

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Micah Honan

Electrical Engineer

B. Electrical Engineering

What do you enjoy about the Solar Car Team?

"I like being able to come into the labs at any time and finding something interesting going on."

Preston Fisher

Electrical Engineer

Communications and Partnerships

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Making content (photos and video)"

Ameer Bashar

Communications Lead

B. of Interior Architecture (Hons) and B. of International Studies

What is something you like about Solar Car?

"How willing the team is to accept people who want to learn, the strong team bond, and the innovative environment."

Mariah Drakoulis

Partnerships & Comms Advisor

B. Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (Hons)

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Getting hands on to engineer and manufacture components of the car that you designed."

Kartik Kumar

Partnerships Lead

B. Medical Science

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"I like the variety of elements that comes into play to make the whole team work."

Leanne Yang

Communications Team

B. Communications

Pearl Chung

Communications Team

Strategy

B. Computer Science (Adv.)

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Learning how to approach different problems and experimenting with different ideas."

Andrew Smith

Strategy Lead

B. Computer Science (Adv.)

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"Working on the slug"

Ethan Harris

Strategist

Alumni

Mentors

B.E. (Mech), M.Sc.(I.D.)

What do you enjoy doing in the Solar Car Team?

"I love working with a team making designs become reality!"

Bernie Fehon

Strategy and Design Adviser

Academic Advisors

Leigh Sheppard

DAP Engineering UNSW - WSU Collaborative Program

BE (Hons), PhD in Materials Science and Enegineering

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Jodie Clark

School Manager

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Raju Majji

Senior Technical Support Officer

MEng (Hons), B Des Tech

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Our Mission

Our Mission

Management