Students from Missouri, Florida and Alabama Roll to the Front of the Pack at ASME HPVC 2004 East Coast Challenge (5/12/04)

Student teams from Missouri, Florida and Alabama each went home from the ASME East Coast Human Powered Vehicle Competition (HPVC) with top honors in their respective categories.

The competition showcases the design, aerodynamics, speed and agility of vehicles operated completely by human pedal power. The East Coast competition took place from May 7-9 at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla.

The team representing the University of Missouri, Rolla, came in first overall in the single-rider category, which was comprised of Design, Sprint and Endurance events.

Lafayette College, in Easton, Pa., placed second in the single-rider category, while Clarkson University, of Potsdam, N.Y., came in third.

The host university's team, University of Florida, took the top spot among tandem (dual-rider) vehicles. The team from Virginia Tech was the runner-up in that category.

In the utility vehicle category, the University of Alabama came in first overall, with the University of Florida and the Wright State University taking second- and third-place, respectively.

Photos of the event are currently not available.

To find out about results from the HPV West Coast Challenge, and to see photos from that competition, see the Late-Breaking News story at www.asmenews.org/latebrk/lb042804.html.

For more details about the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Competition program, visit www.asme.org/hpv.

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President-Elect Harry Armen Featured in New Video Clip; Video Clip Service to Publicize Engineering and Technology News

ASME President-Elect Harry Armen, who last week testified before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee urging support for increased science, engineering and technology funding, is now featured in a video clip that you can access from the ASME home page (www.asme.org).

The clip, which highlights Armen's Senate testimony, launches a video tool that aims to disseminate to the media and general public news of interest to the engineering and technology fields. ASME.ORG will add new video clips of news stories that would be of interest to the general public and/or mass media.

As reported last Wednesday on ASME Late-Breaking News, Armen testified before the Senate Subcommittee urging support for increased funding for U.S. Department of Defense science, engineering and technology (SET) programs that are critical to fundamental scientific advances and to the next generation of highly skilled scientists and engineers.

Armen spoke on behalf of the ASME DOD Task Force of the Inter-Council Committee on Federal Research and Development. In his testimony, Armen stressed the importance of providing robust and stable investments in DOD's SET programs.

To view the task force's full position statement, go to www.asme.org/gric/ps/ps04.html.



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