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A&M Engineering Students Win SAE Hybrid Competition

Recently a group of Texas A&M engineering students, many from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the 2009 SAE Formula Hybrid competition in Loudon, N.H. with their student-designed and -built gas-electric hybrid race car.
The Texas A&M team beat out 29 other teams from institutions in the United States, Canada, Taiwan and Russia to win the title in its first attempt.
During the competition they won four out of the six events, the business presentation, static design judging, autocross and endurance races were all won outright. They also finished 3rd and 2nd in the electric-only and unlimited acceleration events, respectively. In the total event scoring, Texas A&M was awarded 980.9 points out of 1000 with the nearest competitor, Colorado State University, finishing at 757.7 points in front of Drexel University at 689.4 points.

Below is a list of those who have been in the actual design class the last two semesters:

Computer Engineering:
- Chad Kuboviak

Electrical Engineering:
- Freddy Gan
- Russell Hall
- Andrea Silva
- Ryan Hunnicutt
- Ben Tiefenthaler
- Nathan Ciomperlik
- Adam Bestavros
- Michael Longoria

Mechanical Engineering:
- Chris Schneider
- Tyler Liska
- Travis Prochaska
- Bob Hall
- Ahmed Abuelaish
- Alex Jenson
- Blake Gettig
- Brian Bentley
- Chad Cowser
- Evan Vangsnes
- Jon Arendt
- Judson Houston
- Michael King
- Ricardo Lopez
- Steven Smith

Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology:
- Tyler Rodgers

The Mechanical Engineering faculty advisor was Dr. Make McDermott and Dr. Hamid Toliyat, professor from the ECE department, worked with the team.