TCNJ student wows MIT vehicle design summit!
I haven't been on the air here in two months, so I have gathered up quite a bit of material. And I'm glad to be back, whether you read this or not. I'm still here to serve student entrepreneurs.One of my favorite former students, Mary Anne Bitetto, was at MIT this past summer participating in a vehicle design summit. Forgive me if I pass on some of her enthusiasm for the work directly:
The cars are done, and my team finished building first! That was quite a feat, since we began construction about 2-3 weeks after everyone else. Our car is called Pulse (a name I came up with) because we're interested in alternative energy as a lifestyle - the eventual goal is to equip a house with solar panels so that the car can charge the batteries from those, and the panels can power the house when they're not charging the car. It came out great. I'm pretty happy with the frame. It was difficult to work sometimes because we kept losing and gaining people because of their summer schedules, so there were only four people including me who had worked on the project for the entire duration of the summit.Mary Anne had considered enlisting help not only from myself, but Brian Holcombe and even IMET, but there just wasn't time. She was putting in 14- to 16-hour days, designing a new type of car with a small team, under tight time and budget constraints. (That's Mary Anne in the foreground of the picture in the above link, by the way...)
Here are the links:
- MIT Zigzag video
- Christian Science Monitor: "Breaking the Gas Ceiling"
- Boston Globe: "Cars that keep going... and going"
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