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Meet Greenpower Challenge Champion Luke Horsfall

Meet Greenpower Challenge Champion Luke Horsfall

June 14, 2013

Meet Luke Horsfall – the 2012 Greenpower Challenge. By day Luke is working as a composite design engineer for Formaplex, a rapid engineering company that specializes in injection-mold tooling, compos…

By Dora Smith
4 MIN READ
Student engineer Sean Webb shares how cool Greenpower and Solid Edge are

Student engineer Sean Webb shares how cool Greenpower and Solid Edge are

June 11, 2013

We introduced you to future engineer Sean Webb last month. I got to meet him in real life at the Greenpower Challenge Sunday. Above, Sean prepares Team USA’s driver and car for the start of the race …

By Dora Smith
2 MIN READ
Jeremy Way of Greenpower discusses how the organization encourages more student engineers

Jeremy Way of Greenpower discusses how the organization encourages more student engineers

June 11, 2013

At the Greenpower regional heat on Sunday, I spoke with Jeremy Way, CEO of the Greenpower Education Trust to learn a little more about the organization and why he joined it. Jeremy is pictured here w…

By Dora Smith
< 1 MIN READ
David Cullimore shares his Greenpower experience at Goodwood

David Cullimore shares his Greenpower experience at Goodwood

June 9, 2013

The leader of the pack at the Greenpower regional event at Goodwood today was David Cullimore. The majority of Greenpower teams are school organizations. That’s where David got his feet wet….

By Dora Smith
< 1 MIN READ
Nick Peterson of Greenpower Team USA on his first electric car race

Nick Peterson of Greenpower Team USA on his first electric car race

June 9, 2013

A year ago Nick Peterson attended Solid Edge University and shared he was interested in the Greenpower real-world project because itprovides experience in aerodynamics, electrical and mechanic…

By Dora Smith
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Principia Solar Car Update and Interview with Student Engineer Kali McKee

Principia Solar Car Update and Interview with Student Engineer Kali McKee

May 15, 2013

You may remember Kali from our post The Secret to Designing Solar Cars. Now I’d like to share a little bit more from and about her. This semester I got the chance to visit the Principia Solar Team in…

By Dora Smith
2 MIN READ
Meet Future Engineer Sean Webb

Meet Future Engineer Sean Webb

May 8, 2013

Meet Sean Webb, a first year student at Calhoun Community College. His story is one that highlights how important real-world projects are in STEM education. For Sean the project that did it was Green…

By Dora Smith
2 MIN READ
Meet Student Engineer Dylan Van Dyne

Meet Student Engineer Dylan Van Dyne

April 30, 2013

Meet Dylan Van Dyne, a senior in mechanical engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He’s finishing up this senior semester with work on an interesting personal mobility device. When did you k…

By Dora Smith
4 MIN READ
What’s Your Problem, Kazanski?

What’s Your Problem, Kazanski?

April 24, 2013

This line from the 1986 movie, Top Gun, was delivered by an angry Maverick (Tom Cruise) to Iceman (Val Kilmer) after he accuses Cruise of being a cowboy and minimizes Cruise’s latest victory in the T…

By John_W
3 MIN READ