Welcome to another year at Michigan Tech from the Solar Car Team. We are a few weeks into the school year and so much has already been set into motion. Firstly the team would like to welcome back most of our previous team members and introduce our five new team members Rob Ferris, Michael Pawlicki, Orlando Reyes, Stephen DeCeuninck and Jacob Menchak. I will post a link to updated bios and team pictures within the next couple of weeks once the team obtains polo’s for the new members.
The team is proud to have a new sponsor in Dow Corning. Over the course of the summer the team was in contact with Dow Corning about a possible materials or cash donation. In the end their generous cash donation is going to allow the team to confidently proceed in building our solar car this year. Thank you Dow Corning.
The plan for this semester is to build our chassis and shell. The tubing for our chassis is being donated by Arcelor Mittal and should arrive by the first week in October. At that time we will begin bending and welding our chassis together. Hopefully during that time our carbon fiber and resin will arrive and our shell team can begin experimenting and gaining experience working with those materials. That experience will come by designing and fabricating a new carbon fiber shell for our demonstration car. Shortly thereafter the team will begin to layup our shell and all the intricacies involved in that. During this time our newly expanded electrical team will be planning our array and controls with the ultimate goal of having a list of products and prices so that when the team receives the funding we are ready to make those purchases.
As always, the team is pursuing additional sponsorship opportunities and if they work out additional details will be posted here and on our website.
Thanks for reading,
~Dan Sallen
Thanks for reading,
~Dan Sallen
