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Archive for May, 2010
Micky Bly: Reinventing the Automobile with Chevy Volt
Editor’s Note: Micky will be sharing his love for advanced propulsion at the Year 2 Finals of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a three-year collegiate automotive engineering competition that challenges 16 North American universities to reduce the environmental impact of vehicles by minimizing the vehicle’s energy consumption, emissions and greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining its utility, [...]
Full StoryLucy: engineering fuel cell vehicles in Honeoye Falls, NY
Mary Ann Brown, recently started working as a communications manager at the Honeoye Falls Fuel Cells Facility. She met Lucy and wrote this short post about her new friend. – Jordana Lucy Boulatnikov Wilke , senior project engineer Married to: Burkhardt (Burk for short) for almost two years Listens to: Tons of audio books as she [...]
Full StoryMeet the GM EcoCAR Challengers
Editor’s Note: For more than 21 years, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has sponsored more than 45 Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions (AVTC), engaging more than 15,000 students from 85 different colleges and universities. GM has been a major sponsor and has experienced firsthand the tremendous value that competition-trained engineers can bring to the professional [...]
Full StoryJim: Reducing Environmental Impact at GM Lansing Plant
Jim Ecklund Jim Ecklund: Senior Environmental Engineer, GM’s Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant For more than 25 years, I have found it very gratifying to be on the front lines of GM’s efforts to help improve the environment here in Lansing. As someone who helps develop processes and systems that help to reduce the [...]
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