Nebraska’s Baja team climbs to top five at Oregon

UNL’s Baja SAE team finished fourth among 79 collegiate teams at the 2012 Baja SAE Oregon competition in May—the highest finish yet achieved by the Nebraska Engineering team at this major competition.

“We were extremely close to getting third,” said senior Corey Kruse, team captain. “We ended up getting sixth place in the rock crawl, sixth place in the hill climb, 14th in maneuverability and ninth place in acceleration. We finished fifth overall in the dynamic events (those four individual events pooled together) and ninth place in the endurance race. We also got 16th in design and 15th in cost.” Kruse said these results combined to give Nebraska the fourth place finish overall. He added, “We are heading to Wisconsin in (early June) and plan on placing in the ‘Top Ten’ again out there.”