Engineers of Innovation is a Dutch solar boat racing team that designs, builds, and races a custom solar-powered boat.
Come watch us race. Our events range from open project days at the HvA to international races like the Balaton Solar Boat Challenge. If you want to see the boat in action, or just ask us how it works, email us and we'll tell you where we're at.
Events
Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Balatonalmádi, Hungary
Cagliari, Sardinia
Our sponsors make the boat possible. From components to manufacturing, to the workshop we build in. In return, they get access to a team designing and building real hardware in-house, and a direct link to the engineering students behind it. If that's interesting to your company, let's talk.
We're looking for engineering students and people who like being on the water. You'll build actual parts from scratch and race what you helped make. Most people who join stick around.
We build almost everything ourselves. The carbon fiber hull is designed and manufactured in-house; so are the battery system and motor controllers. This hands-on approach gives our partners and team members incredible opportunities to develop real-world skills across every aspect of engineering.
We've been racing solar boats since 2016. The team comes from different studies and backgrounds, but the work is the same: design it, build it, then race it and find out what works. Some of that happens on the water on race day; a lot of it happens in the workshop the night before. If that sounds like your kind of thing, come find us.
