The Mini Baja competition is an intercollegiate engineering design competition for all majors.  The object of the competition is to simulate real-world engineering design projects and their related challenges.  These challenges stretch far beyond the reach of engineering and require a broad base of students with various majors in order to be a complete team.

Each collegiate team is competing to have its design accepted for manufacture by a fictitious firm.  Students must function as a team to design, build, test, promote and compete with their vehicle.  It is these specific tasks, along with managing a student's educational responsibilities, that provides one of the most challenging, but rewarding, experiences a student will have while enrolled at Iowa State.

The 2003 Mini Baja Team at competition in Ohio