Word: student
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Motors doesn't want people wandering around on their own in there," says a student guard. He points to the fence beyond which innocent-looking woods and fields stretch away through southern Michigan. The only authorized way in proves to be a shuttle bus. Bearing two Chrysler engineers and an average American car owner, pitifully eager for any word of mileage efficiency to come, it cruises along winding roads with nothing except trees in view. Nothing, that is, until the road opens on a vast stretch of black tarmac, 67 acres of it, set in the hills near...
...Chrysler folk swiftly head for the spot in the line where the car brought by a team of student engineers from the University of Minnesota sits. A mumble of talk ensues about the interesting hydraulic "hybrid" gas engine the team has built...
...second day of the S.C.O.R.E. (student competitions on relevant engineering), an "energy-efficient vehicle competition." Thirty-four cars from 28 different colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada are on hand. If they do not have a better idea, who does...
S.C.O.R.E. officials are mostly graduate engineering students serving managerial stints in a nonprofit, Boston-based organization founded to promote "handson" engineering technology in North American schools. The Detroit manufacturers usually contribute not merely the testing site but also special testing equipment and engineers who serve as judges. James Paisley of GM's product planning group and his partner, John A. Nattress of the University of Florida, are scheduled to review the experimental-car contestants on something called "costs to the consumer." The bemused car owner finds Paisley and Nattress hard at work on the line evaluating a front-wheel...
...would never carry the wife and three kids to the lake each summer. It is a three-wheeled "people-powered" gadget that relies mainly on its two nearly reclined passengers' ability to pedal an attenuated tandem bike. The little go-cart engine is only for the hills. Explains Student Paul Fromm, ";We can go 40 or 50 m.p.h. ... at least it seems that fast when you're this close to the ground...