LTU Students Roll Out 2026 Race Vehicles

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Lawrence Technological University’s Blue Devil Motorsports (BDM) teams will bring their 2026 competition vehicles to the starting line at the annual BDM unveiling event Tuesday, April 7.

The vehicles will take center stage beginning at noon in the atrium of LTU’s Buell Building (Building 5).

Each year, LTU students gain valuable career-enhancing experience through competitions that challenge them to tackle real-world design and engineering problems.

Students on the five competitive teams research, design, build, and test their vehicles and aircraft, while also raising funds and developing marketing presentations. At the end of the academic year, they test their knowledge and skills against other student teams in regional and international competitions.

The event is free and open to the public. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the transportation engineers of tomorrow working with advanced electric, internal combustion, autonomous, and remote-controlled vehicles.

The teams unveiling their competition vehicles include:

• Baja SAE, in which teams design, build, test, and race a single-seat off-road vehicle.
• Formula Electric, where students design, fabricate, assemble, and test an all-electric, formula-style open-wheel race car.
• Formula SAE, which challenges students to conceive, design, fabricate, and compete with small, formula-style open-wheel race cars.
• Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, originally developed by the defense industry, which challenges teams to design and build autonomous ground vehicles.
• SAE Aero Design, an aeronautical engineering competition in which students design, build, test, and fly a heavy-lift, radio-controlled aircraft.

The teams will travel across the nation for competitions in May and June, competing against hundreds of colleges and universities.

For more information on LTU’s competition teams, visit https://ltu.edu/motorsports.

About Lawrence Technological University

Lawrence Technological University is one of only 13 independent, technological, comprehensive doctoral universities in the United States. Located in Southfield, Mich., LTU was founded in 1932 and offers more than 100 programs through its Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Business and Information Technology, Engineering, and Health Sciences, as well as Specs@LTU through its growing Center for Professional Development. PayScale ranks Lawrence Tech among the nation’s top 10% of universities for alumni salaries. Forbes and The Wall Street Journal also rank LTU among the nation’s top 10%. U.S. News & World Report places it among the best colleges in the Midwest. Students benefit from small class sizes and a real-world, hands-on “theory and practice” education with an emphasis on leadership. Activities on Lawrence Tech’s 107-acre campus include more than 60 student organizations and NAIA varsity sports.

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