Year after year for 15 years now, dozens of engineering students at the Université Laval have been putting their knowledge and expertise to good use in order to design the best possible prototype for a one-seater race car. The ultimate goal: to rank among the world’s best at the Society of Automotive Engineers’ prestigious annual competition held every May in Detroit. With this aim in sight, the members of the Université Laval’s Formule SAE have strived to surpass themselves and have thus added to their university education in a very concrete manner. Doing their utmost to design a prototype that was increasingly advanced technologically, using new, more resistant and lighter materials as well as more ecological fuel such as ethanol, the 2004-2005 team proved they were equal to the task. They showed great determination and last May ranked 24th out of a total of 140 participants, the Université Laval’s best result since 1994. Moreover, thanks to various promotional activities, the students, who devoted more than 9,000 hours of volunteer work, found a way of gaining recognition for their discipline among the public and, above all, among youngsters.