Northeastern Electric Racing
About my time on a team of Northeastern students who fully design, manufacture, and build an electric car for the FSAE and FHE competitions
Skills
Overview
I joined Northeastern Electric Racing in September 2025. I started on the Powertrain Division, working on the segments team. I also became the Charger Cart Lead, tasked with designing and building a new cart with a dead man’s break to carry the battery box along with the high voltage charger and storage for the team.
Charger Cart ‘25
I was in charge of designing, manufacturing, and building a new charger cart for the 2025-2026 season that holds the high voltage charger, as well as various tools and hardware along with the battery box itself, for an estimated load of 300 pounds.
I designed the cart in Solidworks using 8020 construction. The structure of the cart built off of the old charger cart, which was just a sheet of steel bolted to some 8020 extrusion. The main part of this design was the custom dead man’s brake that would apply a braking force to the caster wheels when someone was not actively pushing the cart. I used the principle of a bike brake along with a series of springs to reverse the force in order to always be braking when not applying force to the cart.
Segments ‘25
I designed a printable handle for the segments that allowed them te be easily removeable, even with thick HV gear on. This was designed in Solidworks and used a .125 OD pin as the handle axle. I also manufactured busbars and the polycarbonate segment pieces on the waterjet.
