Dartmouth engineering students launch hybrid racecar competition
Thayer Student Henning "the stig" Olsson driving the Dartmouth Formula Hybrid Racecar during trials this March in Texas. (Photo courtesy of Dartmouth Formula Racing)
Gas-electric hybrid automotive technology could get a boost from a new annual competition organized by a team from
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.
Formula Hybrid? invites teams of college and university students to design, build, and race formula racecars with gas-electric hybrid drive trains. The
first annual Formula Hybrid competition will be held May 1-3, 2007, at New Hampshire International Speedway, Loudon, NH. In addition to Dartmouth, the schools registered to send teams are Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University of Daytona Beach, FL, Illinois Institute of Technology, Colorado State University, Florida Institute of Technology, Yale University, McGill University, and Drexel University.
Along with inspiring students to pursue careers in hybrid-engine technology, the competition could lead to innovations in the field, said Formula Hybrid Director and Thayer School Research Engineer Douglas Fraser. "Students are notoriously able to come up with novel solutions. They don't go in with preconceived notions. They sometimes launch off in directions that you think, 'My God, that won't work,' and, lo and behold, it does."
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2007/04/03.html
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