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Race shows students engineering's practical use
By DAMON FORD
The Chronicle Reporter
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General Greene School of
Science and Technology in
Greensboro was the site for a cele
bration of engineering and a Baja
-race on Wednesday, February 25.
A team of eight seniors from the
Engineering Department at N.C.
A&T State University put their
minds and muscle together to build
the Baja race car.
The students started on the
construction of the car in the fall
of 1997. Members of the team
included Marc Miller, Maurice
Taylor,. Frank Williams, Matt
Naiva, Chris Bristol, Bill Odom,
Zebetta Mudd and Marques
McCannon. Bristol, Odom, Mudd
fend McCannon were absent
because they were attending the
Society Automotive (SA)
Engineering Conference in
Detroit, Michigan.
"Every senior class has to have
a mechanical engineering design
-project," said Naiva.
The engineering students are
.getting the car ready to race other
cars in a mini-baja competition
.being held in Tennessee and
Wisconsin.
Z "We've got much more work to
;dq ... we're going to try and reduce
a lot of weight and use different
'materials," said Miller. "What we
'have accomplished this far has
lipade me extremely proud to be a
/part of this design competition
?gnd A&T's mechanical engineering
iijepartment."
The engineering festival gave
the students at the elementary
school a chance to sec a practical
application as to what engineers
"For the past couple of years we've
done a lot of engineering thing
with the school so hopefully we'll
spark a lot of them to want to
in being a leader in the field of
engineering in the nation.
"National engineers week is cele
brated annually but nothing goes
N.C. AAT Chancellor idward Fort got$ ?ottlod and preparer himself to drive.
do.
"Right now at the early age of
this group, all they're going to see
is that it's real neat, they're going to
see a dooh-buggy," said Taylor.
come into engineering."
The festival also gave A&T
Chancellor Dr. Edward Fort the
chance to let the students and com
munity know the universities place
as well as that celebration here on
this campus," stated Fort. "The
engineering college produces more
baccalaureate degree holding engi
neers of color than any other uni
versity in the country and we're
number two behind Georgia Tech
at the Master's degree level...this
campus produces the worlds great
seen on the faces of the youngsters
as they anticipated the run of the
Baja racer. Chancellor Fort and
Dr. Jerry Weast, the
Mi. lyfoi' first grade clan of General Greene School of Science and
Technology cheer* on the various driver* during the So/a race.
est engineers."
According to Lonnie Sharpe,
Dean of Engineering at N.C. A&T
this project does several things.
"We're building (a) team first of
all, the students are all required to
work in groups to get the car com
pleted. The other thing is we want
to go back and look at how we
compare to other universities," said
Sharpe.
Later on in the morning excite
ment filled the air and could be
Superintendent of Guilford
County Schools were the featured
drivers. After safety instructions
were given by the engineering stu
dents, several other adults took
turns putting on a helmet and tak
ing the car for a spin around the
school.
"This is not a toy at all, some
body could get seriously hurt on
this if they don't know what
they're doing," said Williams. "But
it's a whole lot of fun."
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