{"id":4996,"date":"2018-07-06T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2018-07-06T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T00:01:47","slug":"university-of-idahos-clean-snowmobile-team-takes-home-the-gold-four-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/university-of-idahos-clean-snowmobile-team-takes-home-the-gold-four-times\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Idaho\u2019s Clean Snowmobile Team takes home the gold (four times)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4997 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/UICSC-e1530921639425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Early last March, <a href=\"http:\/\/idahocsc.wixsite.com\/uicsc\">University of Idaho\u2019s Clean Snowmobile Team<\/a> participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/news\/stories\/2018\/march\/empowering-innovation-at-the-2018-clean-snowmobile-challenge.html\">SAE International Clean Snowmobile Challenge<\/a> (CSC) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/\">Michigan Technological University<\/a>, from which they brought home a number of awards for their innovative designs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The PacTrans consortium member\u2019s Clean Snowmobile team is made up of both graduate and undergraduate students and has been competing in the challenge since 2001, taking home first place in 2002, 2003, and 2007. The team\u2019s aim is to reduce emissions and build a quieter machine that remains reliable and maintains performance.<\/p>\n<p>The SAE International CSC is an engineering and design competition that challenges college and university students to reinvent and modify existing snowmobiles, which are then judged based on a variety of sustainable categories regarding emissions and fuel economy, as well as more design and function based classifications, like acceleration and handling.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, students attempt to develop mobiles that would be acceptable to use in national parks, pristine areas, and other environmentally sensitive spaces. In addition to reengineering a quieter machine that is both more fuel-efficient and cleaner burning, students must also strive to make their mobiles cost-effective and comfortable for the operator\u2019s use.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s challenge, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtukrc.org\/snowmobile.htm\">hosted by the Keweenaw Research Center and the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics<\/a>, featured the use of snowmobiles powered by either a special gasoline or a diesel mix. In the gasoline categories, UI\u2019s team was rewarded for best acceleration, best handling, best value, and CAN-DO-E-Controls. Furthermore, the team was able to successfully complete the endurance run.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to UI\u2019s Clean Snowmobile Team for their achievements at this year\u2019s challenge, and good luck to them with their future competitions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early last March, University of Idaho\u2019s Clean Snowmobile Team participated in the SAE International Clean Snowmobile Challenge (CSC) at Michigan Technological University, from which they brought home a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}