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CAREER CORNER
engineering practices in their design and
manufacturing processes, project management,
and business strategies. The execution of these
principles is what they are scored on, and
whether done impeccably or with improvement
needed, there is much that team members involved
get to take away from this experience.
For some, Formula SAE got them hooked on
the world of motorsports. Kevin Boehm is one
of those individuals. Boehm is a four-time
Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) national
champion, two-time Touring Car America
champion, test driver for Honda R&D, co-driver
for the #92 CrowdStrike AWS BMW M4 in the
GT4 series, and has served as a race engineer
throughout all of it. Before all that, however, he
was a first-generation college student studying
mechanical engineering at the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte.
Boehm grew up with a father who had a
passion for cars, and with whom he loved
spending time with at drag races. " My exposure
to that world helped me learn through
osmosis, " Boehm recalled. He always followed
racing but never thought it was a viable career
path for himself-that is, until one day in high
school, when he was introduced to the
engineering discipline. The next race he
attended, he set out on a mission to talk to the
people he saw by transporters in the paddock
area. The first person he spoke to happened to
be a race engineer and that's when all the dots
connected for him.
" It led me down a path where I knew that that
was what I wanted to do for a living, " he said.
Boehm's father had a knack for making a lot
happen with what little they had, and Boehm
adopted the same trait. " I never considered
college before because it wasn't a guarantee, "
Boehm reflected. He put in the time to do well
in high school and get scholarships. When
researching colleges, he looked at mechanical
engineering programs and soon discovered
Formula SAE, which he used as criteria to filter
out other schools. With the idea that being
surrounded by the motorsports industry could
lead to job opportunities, he committed to UNC
Charlotte.
" I had to work hard [to go to school], so I
didn't want to waste the opportunity, " he said.
Boehm joined the Formula SAE team almost
immediately his freshman year. The mindset of
getting the most out of everything he puts his
energy into certainly grew with him throughout
his academic career and into his professional
vocation.
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Kevin Boehm (left) and co-driver, Kenton Koch (right), who took first place at the Fanatec GT
World Challenge GT4 America race at Sebring International Raceway.
Kevin Boehm driving the #92 CrowdStrike AWS BMW M4 in the GT4 Series race at Sebring
International Raceway.
SAE collegiate members from five Florida universities, plus a variety of SAE professional
members, were given a tour of Kevin Boehm's vehicle and had the opportunity to ask him about
his career and engineering background at the GT America World Challenge in Sebring, FL.
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