As Shop Manager of Carnegie Mellon Racing, it's my responsibility to ensure that our team can operate efficiently and effectively in the shop spaces we have. Due to new developments this academic year with our car's chassis, the chassis will not be able to be completed by the winter break as it has in many previous years. Due to this, the part of the team that manufactures and assembles the electronic components of the car needed something to be able to accurately mount electronics on the chassis without having a chassis. 

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Due to my mechanical and construction knowledge, I designed a wooden mock-up of the chassis using the various designs of the car we have in our shared CAD files. I then optimized it to use only the optimal amount of material due to its overall large size and used a waterjet to cut steel plates to mount the motors for added stability. The testbench is now effectively operating as an alternative to the real chassis so that progress can be made with the electronics side of the team for the time being.