The engineering and business schools at Imperial College London in England are cooperating a program called EnVision 2010, that brings together students from two groups to help train them better for the world they will enter after school. Their biggest project within this is called Imperial Hybrid Racing, in which they will design, build, and race a hybrid electric fuel cell race car. That part of the program sounds much like the student design competitions run by the Society of Automotive Engineers, such as Formula SAE, Baja SAE, SuperMileage and others.
[Source: Imperial College London]
1. Having worked on Formula SAE, I'm happy to see projects such as this taking place. FSAE breeds great engineers, but doesn't have a big focus on socially or environmentally conscious technologies. Even if it is a fuel cell-based design rather than something more realistic or sensible, getting future engineers involved with future fuels is important to getting them on the market sooner.
Posted at 11:30PM on Nov 25th 2006 by Nathan