We build engineers.
The car keeps score.
Rice Motorsports Team is a student group building a single-seat solar race car for the American Solar Challenge. Electrical, mechanical and business all work on the same deadline, and the car is the thing that tells us whether we got it right.
Our mission is the people
We exist to turn out electrical and mechanical engineers who have actually built something that had to work in front of judges. Not a class project marked on a rubric — a vehicle that gets inspected, scrutineered and then driven a thousand miles by people who are responsible for it.
Behind them sits a business team that is treated as equally technical. Sponsorship, budgeting, logistics and outreach are the reason there is carbon in the shop and a trailer at the start line, and we staff them accordingly.
Electrical
Pack, protection, trackers, motor control, telemetry.
Mechanical
Composites, chassis, suspension, steering, brakes.
Business
Funding, logistics, partnerships, race-day operations.
Luke Mann
Junior | Specializes in open wheel racing
Muyiwa Ogunsola
Leading commercial strategy and outreach for Rice Motorsports Team.
Boyan Holt
Sebastian Sandoval
Overseeing the whole team, ensuring the success and functionality of the team *she's goated*
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Ellis Vance
Behind the wheel for Rice Motorsports
Jordan Edmonson
How we got here
Founded
A handful of students, a whiteboard and a decision to build a solar car from scratch rather than join something that already existed.
Carrera on the grid
Design reports, build review and scrutineering stand between us and a start line. Clearing them puts a Rice-built solar car into the Formula Sun Grand Prix and the American Solar Challenge.
Come build it with us
Every major, every year, no experience assumed. The people who end up running sub-teams mostly started by showing up to a build night.