NED students’ Formula car to represent Pakistan in Italy SAE competition

Karachi: A group of students at NED University are going to take part in Formula SAE competition of Italy for representing Pakistan along with their Formula car.

Conceived in 1981 by SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers) of the US, the Formula SAE is a competition for aspirants as well as for young graduates from all over the world. Over 250 teams will be taking part in the competition from the July 22^nd to July 25^th, 2016.

The team, which is led by Muhammad Ahsan Arshad and Muhammad Rafi, will be the only team from Pakistan at the Formula SAE Italy competition.

This participation of Pakistani students has been made possible because of the sponsorship deal along with K-Electric and the company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with mechanical department of NED.

“We want more of our youths to step forward along with such innovations and KE, which believes in devoting back to the society, will lend its hand for maximum support,” said representative of KE.

NED is not the first university from Pakistan to have taken part in SAE competition. Recently, a group of aspirants from NUST became the first to make the first electric formula car of the country. Sponsored by Bank Alfalah, they also took part in the American version of SAE.