Its an opinion, with the position he has he probably more competent than most criticizing him.

I can understand why he might think so. While I learned a substantial amount from fsae, I am also one of the few on my team who rejected a large amount of the culture and the leading ideas that is a large majority of fsae: "cool engineering words".

I understand that my time would be better used learning from a world class engines lab or a shadowing a real vehicle dynamicist than the ghetto/sometimes blatantly inaccurate to the rest of the world of fsae. Not to mention the drama and whims of incompetence.

Out of the many people that have come through my past teams door there is only 6 people who I know that can take on anything. Those people learned in fsae the concepts and i.e. how to make a rear space frame of a hybrid coque chassis in less than 2 hours. In other words the art of bogue. But then also went/were doing grad school or real world and know how to deal with real automative/race problems.

We are the people that made the team win.

The overall point is missed a lot of times for the 40+ people also on the team.

Sell them on what you know, not your organization bc shockingly enough a car that avg's 40+mph on its race circuit is laughable in comparison to even a modern minivan much less a real race car.