Formula Student: Assessing the Future of the Established Student-Led Engineering Competition

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Formula Student: Assessing the Future of the Established Student-Led Engineering Competition

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Formula Student: Assessing the Future of the Established Student-Led Engineering Competition

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Futureproofing Engineering Education for Global Responsibility

ISBN

978-3-031-83523-0

ISSN

2367-3389

e-ISSN

2367-3389

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

387-397

Název nakladatele

Springer

Místo vydání

Cham

Místo konání akce

Tallinn

Datum konání akce

24. 9. 2024

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

001485244600036