Students working to go to Miami this spring to race their two EVs http://www.nbc29.com/story/20576074/electric-vehicle-education-program-preparing-engineers-of-the-future [image] Electric Vehicle Education Program Preparing Engineers of the Future by Molly Balkenbush Jan 13 2013
[video flash image http://wvir.images.worldnow.com/images/20576074_BG1.jpg ] Students at the Shenandoah Valley Governor's School are taking their first steps toward becoming engineers - and it's all thanks to a few junky cars. The students are turning the old clunkers into electric racing cars. Hunter McCray just applied to the engineering program at Virginia Tech. His desire to pursue that career started in the shop. "It's always been something in the back of my mind that I thought I might want to do but this really locked it down for me," McCray, a senior, said. McCray is one of a dozen students in the Introduction to Electric Vehicle Engineering class at the Shenandoah Valley Governor's School. Instead of sitting behind desks, students learn hands on. "The way we do it is everything that's in the car was designed by students," said Byron Grove-Humphries, a course instructor. Students junk the wiring, radiators, mufflers and motor and then start from scratch to transform them into electric racing cars. It's all about problem solving, understanding electricity, and teamwork. "Sam and I, another student, completely rebuilt this controller in less than four hours at a competition so I mean it was really something remarkable," McCray said. Once the cars are finished students take them for a spin. Last year the class went to North Carolina to race against other high schools. The group will do whatever it takes to complete the projects - even if that means turning scraps into car parts. "If a piece of structural aluminum in particular like an aluminum angle iron or something like that will be laying anywhere being thrown away, you know we will grab it," said Grove-Humphries. The students are working on two cars right now. This spring, they'll head to Miami to race them. [© 2013 WorldNow and WVIR All Rights Reserved] For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: Angkor EV wants to reduce Asian oil reliance r:300km ts:60kph EVLN: Indian PM Asks Auto Industry to Adopt Electric Technology Fast EVLN: Unhappy warm-climate Leaf-owners > Nissan's lack of a fix EVLN: Strange half-homemade China nEV must corner like a racecar! + EVLN: Big-Daddy's Swamp Rat #37 EV Racer built by Lawless {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Future-Engineers-turning-old-clunkers-into-racing-EVs-tp4660695.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
