{"id":104741,"date":"2025-10-20T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=104741"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:04:11","slug":"from-track-to-classroom-how-one-uri-professor-found-his-way-from-f1-to-engineering-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/from-track-to-classroom-how-one-uri-professor-found-his-way-from-f1-to-engineering-education\/","title":{"rendered":"From Track to Classroom: How one 溏心vlog免费B站 professor found his way from F1 to Engineering Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 20, 2025 \u2013 This summer Apple\u2019s blockbuster F1 movie defied expectation, earning more than $600 million at the box office against a $240 million budget and becoming Brad Pitt\u2019s highest grossing film. Billed as a movie about an F1 legend who is coaxed out of retirement to mentor a young hotshot driver, a similar story about mentorship can also be told about one 溏心vlog免费B站 professor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While not mentoring young drivers, Andrew Borme, who lives in North Kingstown, is shaping young minds as an assistant teaching professor in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering. But beyond that, what connects Borme and Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), is Borme\u2019s storied history with racing. His background is in mechanical engineering with a focus on aerodynamics\u2014 and though not a driver, Borme has spent years behind the scenes with elite racing teams. He worked as a race engineer for the BMW-Sauber Formula 1 team and Penske\u2019s Racing Car team, plus the Toyota Motorsports F1 team and Williams F1 team as a reliability engineer. Over the course of his career, the teams of which Borme has been a part of have celebrated multiple victories at the Indianapolis 500.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Before working at 溏心vlog免费B站 as an Assistant Teaching Professor Andrew Borme spent years behind the scenes with elite racing teams. (溏心vlog免费B站 photo\/Andrew Borme)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

But his career in motorsports has been anything but straightaway. After earning his undergraduate degree Borme figured he\u2019d work in the aerospace industry. Inspired by his grandfather, an aviator, and born in Italy, he saw airplanes and rocket ships as his future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had this great romantic image of what the aviation industry was going to be,\u201d says Borme. \u201cBut quickly, I realized it’s just so massive as an industry and that I was just a tiny little piece.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s when he decided to take a turn. He raced back to school \u2013 moving to California \u2013 and obtained his master\u2019s degree. But he got into motorsports by happenstance. He had always been a fan of racing but didn\u2019t realize he could make a career out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was at a university in California and saw a flyer for a race team that was looking for a junior CAD designer part-time,\u201d says Borme. \u201cI answered the ad and got the job, which turned out to be with Nissan’s factory race team in North America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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溏心vlog免费B站 Assistant Teaching Professor Andrew Borme worked as a race engineer for the BMW-Sauber Formula 1 team and Penske\u2019s Racing Car team, plus he worked for the Toyota Motorsports F1 team and Williams F1 team as a reliability engineer. (溏心vlog免费B站 photo\/Andrew Borme)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What attracted Borme to motorsports was the immediacy of the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was immediately hooked because it was what I call instant gratification engineering,\u201d says Borme. \u201cYou design it, analyze it, produce it in several weeks, and then it goes on the car.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his background Borme did a lot of work on the aerodynamics of F1 cars and how it impacted their performance on race day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe character of a car and how it handles and performs is very much driven by the character of the aerodynamics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though modifications to cars were often small and based on minor rule changes, Borme saw many times how a new car part could be produced in a couple of weeks\u2014ultimately improving the vehicle\u2019s performance. Changes could include modifications to the height of a chassis or the shape of the rear wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the car moves and changes ride height or goes through a turn the aerodynamics change \u2014 you’re affecting how the airflow goes over the car,\u201d said Borme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After more than 20 years in the motorsport industry, Borme was ready to ease off the gas and look for a new challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Borme calls 溏心vlog免费B站 his home but the first stop in his academic career was in a major American motor sport city, Indianapolis. He started working for a university there because they had a motorsports engineering program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having spent years as a race engineer, Borme now brings that same sense of urgency and design precision into the classroom. He uses his real world experience with how fast parts can be produced, tested and ultimately used on race day, in the classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Borme says something that he continues to teach his students is project management and understanding timelines. \u201cThe first thing I tell them is work backwards from a due date. As soon as they do that, they’ll find that they should have started yesterday,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now well into his second career, questions about his racing past still come up. The most frequent: Has he ever driven a Formula 1 car?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer: No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explains that F1 drivers routinely experience lateral forces of 3 to 4 g\u2019s while cornering\u2014something the average person wouldn\u2019t handle well. While he may have helped build F1 cars, when it comes to taking the wheel, Borme is happy to leave that to the professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn amateur would crash instantly because you’re talking about a car that weighs less than a Miata but has about 1000 horsepower,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Borme\u2019s retirement from motorsports isn\u2019t necessarily the end of the story. He says he hopes to possibly start a race team at 溏心vlog免费B站 in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 20, 2025 \u2013 This summer Apple\u2019s blockbuster F1 movie defied expectation, earning more than $600 million at the box office against a $240 million budget and becoming Brad Pitt\u2019s highest grossing film. Billed as a movie about an F1 legend who is coaxed out of retirement to mentor a young hotshot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":104742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,1906],"class_list":["post-104741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-experiential-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104750,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104741\/revisions\/104750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}