Category: Aerospace Engineering
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Our panel of solar supporters | Race, day three
The Michigan car ended the day in one of the best positions in team history, and the family, friends and alumni riding along are doing more than just cheering.
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Cloudy with a chance of machine learning | Race, day two
The top four teams are in a tight battle with each other, and the elements
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Hot sun. Cool heads | Race, day one
Currently in fifth place, Michigan finishes day one with confidence.
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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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Powell conversation draws thousands
The retired general discussed geopolitics, race and wisdom for the next generation.
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The grocers | T-minus 29 days
Hungry for din, and even more for the win
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Arrival | T-minus 36 days
EXPERTS: The 2017 Novum race crew has arrived in Adelaide, Australia. We are excited to get back to work – this time at the nearby Parafield Airport. Neighboring historical fighter-jets, hangar 107 houses our workspace for the next few weeks – a cool substitute for our familiar home in the Wilson Center on North Campus.…
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Shipping Novum
An all-nighter, the ultimate checklist and a dash to the airport. Shipping a solar car is so much more complicated than you could imagine.
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In the wind tunnel
Novum goes in, valuable strategic data comes out.
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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.