Formula Student: Assessing the Future of the Established Student-Led Engineering Competition
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21230%2F25%3A00382295" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21230/25:00382295 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-83523-0_36#chapter-info" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-83523-0_36#chapter-info</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83523-0_36" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-83523-0_36</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Formula Student: Assessing the Future of the Established Student-Led Engineering Competition
Original language description
Engineering education must address real-life challenges, including ecological sustainability. This study examines Formula Student (FS), a student-led competition where participants design and build Formula racing cars. Although FS is a popular student-led engineering design competition engaging industry and academia, its impact on sustainability is debatable. As part of the EuroTeQ consortium’s research on co-creation tools in European Engineering Universities, this analysis explores FS’s role in Project-Based Learning (PBL). Using qualitative methods—interviews, field visits, participatory observation, and a focus group workshop—the study assesses FS teams from Tallinn, Prague, Munich, and Eindhoven. The findings, presented under six dimensions, highlight FS’s strengths in practical learning, university involvement, student participation, alumni engagement, and internal expertise and knowledge sharing. Challenges include inconsistent student dedication, diversity issues, and ecological concerns. Despite these, the FS ecosystem remains effective in bridging academia and industry. However, the trajectory of the dominant socio-technological imaginations in the automobile sector and the willingness of the competition formats to adapt to those suggests that the FS will remain relevant in the future too.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Futureproofing Engineering Education for Global Responsibility
ISBN
978-3-031-83523-0
ISSN
2367-3389
e-ISSN
2367-3389
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
387-397
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
Event location
Tallinn
Event date
Sep 24, 2024
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
001485244600036