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Take a Ride: Journey of the UW ChemE Car

AIChE’s annual Chem-E-Car Competition® engages college students in designing and constructing a car powered by a chemical energy source that will safely carry a specified load over a given distance and stop.

This year, the UW Team (advisor: Prof. Stu Adler), Dawg Sled, beat the tough regional competition and participated in finals at the AIChE meeting in November. The team’s effort to optimize the car until the last minute unfortunately resulted in a technical difficulty that prevented them from making a successful run. But all was not lost. The UW Team won second place in the poster competition, behind a fellow Pacific Northwest rival UBC. Our students stood out by providing technical details about the design process and philosophy.

 

UW ChemE Car Team (from left): Pash Shamaprasad, Tad Lienjaya, Victoria Hildreth, Heather Huang, Yu Chen Liu, Sam Smith and Matt Willet

 

The team took second place in the poster competition