Overview
Employees
11-50 employees
Type
Educational Institution
Headquarters
Lawrence, Kansas
Jayhawk Motorsports is a student organization within the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas. For over 20 years, students have designed and built award-winning racing vehicles. Each year, cross-disciplinary teams build vehicles to take to international competitions against other universities. The vehicles are judged on a wide variety of criteria such a design, performance and marketing. Students gain experience in project management, design, manufacturing, testing and perhaps most importantly, teamwork. Jayhawk Motorsports manufactured its first carbon fiber chassis in 1998, and has since become the longest running FSAE team to build a carbon fiber chassis in-house. We also own and operate an engine dynamometer and chassis dynamometer for powertrain development. Starting in 2012, Jayhawk Motorsports began developing two vehicles a year, one Electric and one Combustion, being one of the pioneering teams in the United States in the growing Electric field. In 2014, Jayhawk Motorsports developed their first Baja SAE Vehicle and since that time it has been competing on a National level. We are driven by the passion of competition, excellence in engineering, and continue to build on the 20 plus years experience. Success developed by one racing family, Jayhawk Motorsports.
