Category: Students
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Speed pageant | T-minus 10 hours
One at a time, each solar car competes for the fastest lap around the track. The outcome determines tomorrow’s starting line.
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In the hot seat | T-minus 35 hours
It’s the day before pole placement is determined for the start of the race. Go inside the team’s garage and meet the drivers.
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Ready to Race | T-minus 5 days
Live coverage of U-M in solar car race begins soon
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Don’t touch the array
Breaking a six-year stretch of using silicon solar cells, Novum is crowned with the most efficient multijunction gallium arsenide cells in team history.
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Better ingredients. Better performance.
In many ways, Novum is a product of team firsts. On the surface, its caliber of multijunction gallium arsenide solar cells and small array set it apart from anything they’ve ever built. But what’s beneath the surface is equally innovative.
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Overview: Solar Car Team goes small to win big at World Solar Challenge
Meet Novum: a long, skinny, single-fairing solar car
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Overview: Solar Car Team goes small to win big at World Solar Challenge
Meet Novum: a long, skinny, single-fairing solar car
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Solar Car virtual garage
Explore and compare the various U-M solar car designs.
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Gabe Draughon: Humanitarian with a big heart
In the future, Gabe hopes to use his experience at Michigan to make a difference. “I’m going to take these five years and see where I’ll have the most impact. Whether as a professor, a researcher, or a nonprofit owner,” he says.
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Paul Beata named 2015-16 J. Robert Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellow
Michigan Engineering doctoral student Paul Beata has been chosen as the 2015-16 fellow for the J. Robert Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellows Program.
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Twin sister scientists: Aftin & Astin Ross
Aftin and Astin Ross, PhDs in biomedical engineering, are making a name for themselves at the FDA.
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Trebecca McDonald: A different side of engineering
Michigan grad Trebecca McDonald is combining her interests in civil engineering, urban planning and sustainability to make strides in Detroit.