Posts Tagged ‘engineering students’

College students take on an ‘Inside Out’ design theme

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
A few students from the College for Creative Studies and the University of Michigan ran with the theme "Inside Out" and created three concepts for the American Iron and Steel Institute's summer automotive design internship program.All three designs try to take parts of a vehicle that would normally ......

Cambridge engineers develop “talking” Fiat

Monday, April 30th, 2007
Who would have thought that Pixar would turn out to be a prophet of the automotive industry? In creating its talking automobiles for the computer-animated film Cars, the Disney-associated studio might have done just that, as a group of engineering students in England have demonstrated.The team at Ca......

Robo-exotica: NC State snags Lotus Elise for ‘07 DARPA Challenge

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Now this is what we call an upgrade: NC State University's Insight Racing team has scored a new set of wheels for the upcoming 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge. The team's Chevrolet Suburban, dubbed "Desert Rat" for the last DARPA challenge, which sent vehicles across the Mojave in the final event, will s......

Watch out Lexus: Students design auto-park system

Friday, October 6th, 2006
A rather creative group of mechanical engineering students at the University of Toledo have taken on a unique task: parallel parking. We all know that Lexus has made headlines with the LS460 and the Advanced Parking Guidance System, but these guys have designed a relatively simple alternative that ......