WMG helps students gear up for global engineering competitions
Thursday 26 June 2025
WMG helps students gear up for global engineering competitions
Engineering students are putting the finishing touches to their projects in preparation for a series of international challenges and competitions.
As part of its commitment to enhancing the student experience, WMG offers a variety of multi-disciplinary, student-led engineering projects at the undergraduate level, with connections to industry partners.
These projects help students develop essential skills such as time and risk management, teamwork, and practical hands-on experience, with each member of the team assigned a specific role and area of responsibility – from engineering and technical leads, to marketing and sales support. The projects have a strong track record of producing highly employable graduates for industry and academia.
While WMG and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult provide seed funding, each team is responsible for securing sponsors and raising funds to support their project. The teams benefit from access to WMG’s world-class facilities and receive support from PhD students, academics, engineers, technicians, and industry sponsors.
Dave Cooper, WMG’s technical lead for student projects, explains: “The student projects are a framework for the students to back up their academic knowledge with hands-on experience. We're not just talking about the core engineering skills for automotive and engineering. This is every aspect of working in industry.
Warwick Submarine
Students on the Warwick SubmarineLink opens in a new window team are tasked with engineering, manufacturing and testing a human-powered submarine, before competing at the International Submarine RacesLink opens in a new window, a biennial design competition for human powered underwater vehicles. This year the competition was held in Maryland, USA from 22-27 June.


Warwick Racing
Warwick RacingLink opens in a new window’s goal is to design, develop and build a high-performance, single-seat electric racing car worthy of the Silverstone Circuit, and other iconic circuits worldwide. To date, the team has produced seven generations of combustion vehicles and three generations of electric vehicles.
The students enter the car into Formula StudentLink opens in a new window, Europe’s most established educational engineering competition. This year’s Formula Student takes place from 16-20 July at Silverstone and the team will be racing their 4th generation EV, WRe4.
The team will also be competing in a new category this year, Formula Student Artificial IntelligenceLink opens in a new window(FS-AI), which challenges university teams to design and develop autonomous driving systems capable of operating a driverless vehicle.
Warwick Moto
Warwick Moto aims to design, build and race a fully-electric race-spec superbike from scratch. The team is at the forefront of sustainable electric racing, developing cutting-edge electric motorcycle platforms, which has enabled them to develop many firsts in the electric automotive market. The team will test their electric superbike at MotoStudentLink opens in a new window in Spain on 15-19 October


Warwick Harvest
The UK agricultural sector is suffering from a severe labour shortage, and there is a huge need for automation technologies to support British growers and enable them to continue feeding our growing population.
In response, Warwick HarvestLink opens in a new window, sponsored by G’s FreshLink opens in a new window, have been challenged to create an agricultural robot that can autonomously navigate and harvest spring onions.
The team recently participated in the 2025 Farm Robotics ChallengeLink opens in a new window, an annual competition designed for teams to identify and solve real-world agricultural challenges using cutting-edge robotics technology. Although the team did not win an award this year, they were commended for their excellent engineering and design work, showing strong potential for real-world impact in the field.
Find out more about the WMG undergraduate student projects here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/about/outreach/studentproject/Link opens in a new window