神奈川工科大学ソーラーカープロジェクトにおけるものづくり事例

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The purpose of this report is introducing examples of making things in KAIT Solar Car Project. And also is considering on the Project Oriented Engineering Education in KAIT Solar Car Project. In our university, these days we have been increasing active learnings as integrated units of classroom lecture and practical work or projects. In our team, fairing and chassis of the racing solar car have been developed from DIY level to high amateur level in 20 years. At first, we built chassis from ICE racing kart. Next, we tried to build space frame chassis, nowadays we use carbon honeycomb monocoque chassis utilizing dry-carbon sandwich panels. To make fairing, we used to utilize hard foaming material at the beginning, later we acquired carbon-fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) on the foaming materials. Vacuum forming of the CFRP and dry-carbon technics, we have been learned from the engineer-passionate high school teachers and helpful working people.