HISTORY OF
The inspiration to form Circuit Maesters started after the success of Team Primus, the first awards winning team from AUST participated in Formula Student UK 2019, with a combustion engine FSAE car. The competition is annually held in July, at the Silverstone Circuit, UK. FSUK is one of the largest undergraduate engineering competitions in the whole world.
The Team Primus was led by Antony Biswas (Aust ME 9th). During the competition, Mumshad Nahiyan (Aust EEE 39th), who was the head of the electric group of Team Primus back then, was inspired by the self-driving electric cars at the Silverstone Circuit, developed by different Formula Student teams and decided to take the challenge in the coming years.
Later after returning from the competition, Circuit Maesters was Co-Founded by,
Mumshad Nahiyan (Aust EEE, Former member of Team Primus)
Tasnemul Nehal (Aust EEE)
Shifat Ara (Aust EEE, Former member of Team Primus)
Jami Hossain (Aust EEE)
Mobin Hossain (Aust EEE)
Faraz Kabir (Aust CSE)
Maham Ahmad (Aust IPE, Former member of Team Primus)
Raiyaan Abdullah (DU RME)
Rusab Sarmun (DU EEE)
Antony Biswas (leading personnel from Team Primus) has joined Circuit Maesters as the Alumni Advisor. The team also had our respected Prof Dr. AKM Ehtesanul Islam (Dept of EEE, Aust) sir onboard as the Faculty Advisor. And later our respected Prof Dr. Omar Farok (Dept of EEE, Aust) sir as the 2nd Faculty Advisor.
The team later recruited more students from Aust IPE, ME, EEE, CSE and DU EEE, RME departments (total 30 members as of 2021). Meet our team >
Circuit Maesters has aimed to build the first driverless car of Bangladesh, and participate in the Formula Student UK 2022 Artificial Intelligence segment. The team has presented their plan/roadmap to the respected faculty members of the Dept of EEE, Aust and later they have also presented their goals to the respected Vice-Chancellor sir of Aust and got appreciated by everyone. The team has received numerous motivational, technical and financial support from Aust and has been continuously working towards building the perfect driverless car.
Circuit Maesters has departmentalized the team into 5 groups, and each group has been provided with some milestones to be achieved. The team has spent a large amount of time researching the safest, most efficient, and innovative engineering solutions for different sectors of the car. While safety is the primary priority and high performance is one of the key aspects, the team is also considering a fine balance between performance and cost-efficiency (our primary target is to source/build most of the products within the country and others from abroad). But since autonomous system safety requires “state of the art” grade products in most cases, the team decided to not go with the most economic solutions.
The team has decided to share their knowledge after the competition, for faster advancement of the community. Regarding this matter, they have planned to create a series of YouTube videos where they will briefly explain how they have built their car, step by step. They believe that this way, students from engineering universities will be able to learn their solutions, research and innovate better solutions, and also will be able to take the engineering further than where Circuit Maesters has stopped. The team dreams that there will be multiple Formula Student driverless teams developing driverless cars with them in the upcoming years. The team also planned to conduct multiple professional workshops and seminars to inspire young students to pursue this venture in the future.