OSU's undergraduate engineering team that designed and tested the world's fastest electric car pose at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

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Bay City Native Todd Majeski's Firm Supports World's Fastest Electric Car

SolidWorks Design Software Used at Ohio State for "Buckeye Bullet"

March 3, 2005
By: Dave Rogers

      Former Bay Cityan Todd Majeski is on a fast track selling and providing training for CAD (computer aided design)software, but some of his customers are going even faster.

      How does 314.958 miles per hour sound?


      Mr. Majeski, 44, a 1978 graduate of John Glenn High School who earned an associates degree at Delta College and a mechanical engineering degree at Lawrence Technological University, Detroit, is the founder, owner and president of 3DVision Technologies, Cincinnati. The firm sells and supports SolidWorks 3D mechanical design software and has branches in major cities in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.

      Ohio State University students at the OSU Center for Automotive Research designed and built an electric car, dubbed "The Buckeye Bullet," that recently set the world's land speed record of nearly 315 miles per hour.

      Director of the Center for Automotive Research is Giorgio Rizzoni, OSU's Ford Motor Company Chair in Electromechanical Systems and a professor of mechanical and electrical engineering.

      Launching their drive for land speed records four years ago, the OSU students chose the SolidWorks software, with Mr. Majeski and his staff cooperating in training, implementation and support.

      OSU students used the SolidWorks COSMOSXpress design analysis software to test and analyze the designs of the super-fast streamlinedvehicle.

      Students form teams to work on various parts of the project such as drive train, aerodynamics, etc., and manage all aspects of design and production with faculty and external design advice.

      The OSU creation "BuckeyeBullet" is 31 feet long, two feet wide and less than three feet high. The 400 plus horsepower electric traction motor is powered by more than 900 batteries. The car's racing team is comprised entirely of undergraduate students. Driver of the vehicle is Roger Schroer, manager of driver training atTRC, Inc., Marysville, Ohio, automotive testing firm.

      The team set the land speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, on Oct. 15, 2004.

      The Cincinnati firm was featured in a recent edition of the SolidWorks Community trade publication.

      Mr. Majeski's firm was recently named by Business Courier magazine as one of the tri-state's 50 fastest growing companies, based on growth in revenues over three years.

      He started the firm in 1995 after working for Computervision and Rasna. The firm has added specialized staff to handle CAE applications such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Dynamics and Fluid Flow to help customers solve complex problems beyond the limits of 3D CAD, he said.

      For more information see www.3DVision.com.###