FSAE Japan 2025 – SOLIDWORKS Supports Students from Competitions to Careers

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The following blog is co-written by my colleague Junko Arai, SOLIDWORKS EDU Senior Sales Specialist Japan.

Formula SAE Japan (FSAEJ), started in 2003, is an opportunity for students to develop various skills involved with object creation and as training for those who will one day play critical roles in the future of the automotive industry.

The Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. unites students, engineers and industry professionals by the common passion of automotive research. SAE Japan consists of more than 50,000 individual members and over 500 corporate members.

Dassault Systèmes and SOLIDWORKS EDU team support these students to design, produce and race a vehicle by providing free software tools through the SOLIDWORKS Student Team Sponsorship program.

Before the event, SOLIDWORKS Japan Industry Process Consultants (IPC) engineers provide training sessions to FSAEJ students to develop the necessary skills in SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for competition and their future careers.

We are happy to share the FSAEJ 2025 results with the SOLIDWORKS Community.

We applaud the efforts of Nagoya University FSAEJ team that placed first overall in FSAEJ EV. Using SOLIDWORKS, these future engineers are well on the way to being prepared to work in the transportation industry as 90% of the EV automotive industry uses Dassault Systèmes technology.

Nagoya University Formula Team FEM once again recaptured first place in the EV category, achieving back-to-back victories and successfully rebuilding their team as an EV powerhouse.

The team broke the acceleration record and outperformed all ICV teams in autocross.  Next year, they will continue to work towards their goal, to ‘break records in the dynamic events’ and demonstrate the speed of EV vehicles, even against ICV teams. The SOLIDWORKS community will be there to cheer you on.

Congratulations to Doshisha University Racing that successfully completed the endurance race and achieved single-digit rankings in all events except efficiency, enabling the team to reach the goal of 2nd place overall in ICV. The team stated, “Our concept is ‘fun to drive’, and we develop each formula car with the goal of creating a fast yet easy-to-handle car that is highly reliable and durable.”

Years ago, Osaka University presented at SOLIDWORKS World Japan.  (Marie: I was honored to sit in their FSAEJ vehicle),  Osaka University Formula Team is leading the way in combining SOLIDWORKS with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform technology to develop their race car in the ICV category.

Tohoku University in the EV category also used SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to develop this years race car. (Marie: Visiting Tohoku Mechanical engineers and the Formula SAE team illustrated to me how theory, applied technology, and teamwork produces some of the best engineering skills).

The relationship between SOLIDWORKS and FSAEJ students, educators and industry mentors continues to grow.  For over 12 years, the SOLIDWORKS Japan team has been supporting this event, not only with great industry software tools but with training and community support.

Thank you FSAEJ for hosting such a great event.  Thank you to all the educators and industry mentors that help these teams. Thank you students for working so hard to give us all a great experience.

More to come with SOLIDWORKS Simulation and 3DEXPERIENCE Technology

FSAEJ students can look forward to more training in SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS Simulation, SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to manage, share and mark up their data.

SOLIDWORKS User Groups for Educators and Mentors Too

All educators and mentors are invited to join a SOLIDWORKS Japan User Group community (SWUGN) too.

The SOLIDWORKS Emotional Paycheck 

SOLIDWORKS IPC engineers find happiness not only in teaching their specialized fields and sharing their knowledge and experience, but also in closely overseeing students’ growth.

Junko and I would also like to thank the IPC engineer’s managers who gave the go-ahead to set up this support system for the student teams.

Here are our EDU supporters!

  • For SOLIDWORKS + 3DEXPERIENCE : Masaharu KAJIWARA, Dake SHIRAGAMI, Hiroki OGURI <<< Masahiro SHAKUSHIRO (manager)
  • For CAE : Yoshinobu NAKAZATO <<< Tomoko SHIMAMURA (manager)

For over a decade, SOLIDWORKS Japan has supported FSAEJ and its students. From Hokkaido University in northern Japan to Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) in the southern Japan, to thousands of students in between, we look forward in sharing more student stories with our SOLIDWORKS community.

Thank you Junko and the SOLIDWORKS Japan team for your support.

Design well.  Marie

 

Marie Planchard

Marie Planchard

Senior Director, Early Engagement, 3DEXPERIENCE Works at Dassault Systemes
Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. As Senior Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, she is responsible for global development of content and social outreach across all levels of learning.
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