Engineering students’ ‘Chem-E-Car’ places nationally

November 17, 2010

The University of Florida AIChE Chem-e-Car Team placed 2nd out of 32 universities in the Distance Competition and won the award for the Most Consistent Performance (best average distance between the two runs). As Cougar rolled to the finish, its creators held their breath. The car, fueled entirely by chemical reactions, had passed the rigorous […]

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Students race robots in “Ben-Hur chariot race” re-enactment

July 30, 2010

About 120 incoming freshmen built shoebox-sized robots out of LEGO Mindstorm NXT kits in a summer class on engineering design and programming.

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