SAE Motorsports Engineering Conference

[Mike Hurst]

A sample of one of the technical sessions:

12/2

3:00 p.m. ORAL ONLY
RallyCar Occupant Protection
Andrew Mellor, Federation Internationale de L'Automobil
3:30 p.m. 2008-01-2973
Shape Memory Composites Applied to the Construction of a Conformable Racing Car Seat
Patrick Devin Leahy, Allyson Antonio, Donald W. Radford, Colorado State Univ.
4:00 p.m. 2008-01-2971
IMPAXX* Energy Absorbing Foam for Enhanced Driver Safety in Motorsports Door Applications
Myron John Maurer, Dow Chemical Co.

http://www.sae.org/events/mec/

[markhuebbe]

Are you attending? Will any of this be published?

[Mike Hurst]

Are you attending? Will any of this be published?

A conference such as this is ideal for scruitineers, sanctioning body officials and rally car fabricators, I believe it is open to anyone, but SAE members attend at a substantial discount. This conference is held every 2 years.

Some of the technical seminars are based on published papers, but others are not, some are round table and informal discussions.

The chairman of the SAE Motorsports Engineering Conference committee is Michael Royce, the Chief of Scruitineering for the Sno*Drift Rally.

I will be attending.

[Safe Drives]

I will be attending as well.

It looks like it will be a good event!

[Jgardhouse]

My SAE student membership gets me in for free... Now how to find the time and money to schlep my ass to NC!

[Safe Drives]

If anyone wants to split room @ the ES please send me a PM.

[RichardM]

Wish I could go but not in my job description at the moment.

By the way, not only am I an SAE member but I am also an NFPA member so I try to keep track of what is going on with NFPA 610 Safety at Motorsport Venues.

[Cosworth]

I'll be there, I just moved to Charlotte and this is about 10 min from my place.