University Racing Eindhoven (URE) is a student team of TU/e where students cutting-edge electric race cars for Formula Student electric and driverless competitions worldwide, fostering teamwork, innovation, and engineering passion. With a succesful history of 20 years, URE built it’s way up to the ranking of the Formula Student Competition. URE completes an annual cycle of design, production, testing and competition with currently the URE18 in production!
I joined the URE17 team in the 2022/23 season. URE is divided into departments, with each having their specialism and tasks. During my year, I was active in the Operations and External Affairs department. Altough the departments have their own meetings, the whole URE team has weekly meeting and is incorperated in the technical production. Especially since 95% of the car is designed and produced on-site in Eindhoven.
Within the operations department I was responsible for events and marketing. This included organizing events, designing team merchandise, flyers and magazines. These creative graphic design tasks had a lot of variation in purpose and flexibility. This required different realizations with Adobe skills like Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects and Photoshop.
External affairs was focused on the relation and acquisition of partners. This department thaught me to get in contact with existing and potential company partners via fairs, meetings or calls. I believe these acquisition skills are very useful for future projects regarding stakeholds and other external relations.
