Personnel Training by New Technological Development and the Effect Through Competing Student Formula SAE Competition

The University of Tokyo established the team “The University of Tokyo Formula Factory” for “Student Formula SAE Competition of JAPAN” that started in 2003 organized by Japan Society of Automotive Engineers’ , and it has participated from the 1st competition. “Easy Drive” is assumed to be the main concept under the basic philosophy “Aim at the victory by a conception different from the others” . The team adopted the power unit with Electronically controlled Continuously Variable Transmission (E-CVT) for the big scooter that no one uses, installing many systems of the world first, and got the 1st prize in the 7th event in 2009. How to advance the project and the effect of the personnel training by making them with new technological developments are verified.