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What one MacNN'er has been up to...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Fyre4ce
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Far above Cayuga's waters.
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GO BIG RED!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: in a weapons producing nation under Jesus
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Jan 2001
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Nice to see you're still alive bro. Congrats on the win.
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You remind me my wife… why you laugh? She dead. | sasper at gmail dot com
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2003
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congratulations 
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: France
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Nice one! And there were actually teams from other countries as well unlike most American world championships! 
Well done
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Yeah, I'm still alive, thank goodness. I've been recovering big-time - like sleeping 14 hours per night the last few nights. Damn it feels good.
The Australian teams are getting really good. University of Wollongong won the competition in 2003. We crashed our car right before the event so didn't have it together well and had some reliability problems. University of Western Australia has won the design competition (one of the events) for two years in a row and finished 2nd place this year. They have a very nice car and I suspect they'll be giving future Cornell teams a serious run for their money.
Speaking of the design competition, basically the technical experts on the team get interviewed by automotive and racing professionals to see how well we understand our car and how well we can justify our design decisions. This is a picture of me talking with two engine judges in the first round of the event:
[ALL inline images must be no wider than 480 pixels. --tooki]
On my right is Ken Sperry, a well-known powertrain engineer from GM. On my left is an engineer from Cosworth, a big British high-performance engine company. That notebook in my hands is one I prepared ahead of time with test results, calculations, etc to defend myself. The chassis guy and I advanced to the final round and ended up getting 4th place in design, out of 140 teams. What a thrill.
(Last edited by tooki; May 26, 2005 at 01:50 PM.
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Fyre4ce
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: chillin with Billy, James, D'Arcy and Jimmy
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Originally Posted by Fyre4ce
The Australian teams are getting really good. University of Wollongong won the competition in 2003. We crashed our car right before the event so didn't have it together well and had some reliability problems. University of Western Australia has won the design competition (one of the events) for two years in a row and finished 2nd place this year. They have a very nice car and I suspect they'll be giving future Cornell teams a serious run for their money.
hey! I'm a UWA alum! 
Great to hear my alma mater doing well in that competition.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: London
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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i am assuming some kind of vehicle was built... CONGRATS
i wish in college i had something like this to focus on.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by Diggory Laycock
Yeah, I'm on campus right now and the power went out for about half an hour. Wow, must have been campus-wide.
Yes, a vehicle was built - a race car.
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Fyre4ce
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Well done. I was involved in the UK with Formula Student, so I know the kind of effort involved. It's a great thing to do. But it makes normal engineering life really suck arse after uni.
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Join Date: Jan 2000
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A few students and a faculty advisory died on the way to the competition this year in a bad multi vehicle accident; I think they were coming from Montana or Minnesota.
Hmm, this article says 3 students and the faculty advisor was fine. My bad.
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/vancrash18e_20050518.htm
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Cool. Many congrats
My school's (USF) SAE chapter participates in something like that, but offroad, in the mud and sticks. I have no idea how thay are doing.
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Michigan, USA
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I wish I had known the event was happening ahead of time. I would have driven down and checked it out as I live only about 40 minutes from there.
We coulda had a beer.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Near Boulder, CO
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That is AWESOME! I have wanted to build a motorcucle powered go-cart in a much simpler fashion then what you put together. I am impressed, I want more info...
Zach
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Canada
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Near Boulder, CO
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I like the nalgene bottles!
Damn I wish I could get my hands on one of those for a coupla days, or own one!
Zach
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