NSF Sponsorship Faculty Awards for Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition FY 2006, 2007, 2008

这笔拨款为挑战X先进车辆竞赛提供支持。本次竞赛由美国国家科学基金会、能源部、加拿大自然资源部、汽车行业（通用汽车）以及思科系统、ArvinMeritor、德尔福和美国国家仪器公司等供应商联合主办。这是美国和加拿大大学本科学生非常成功的教育经验的延续。更广泛的影响是显著的，团队在应用环保设计和制造原则方面进行竞争，以减少卡车和运动型多用途车（suv）产品生命周期中的能源和环境影响。它的目标是设计和竞争商业上可生产的车辆，同时舒适，安全，道路可靠，商业可行性和高燃油效率。在这项比赛中，许多大学每年都参加这项比赛。该奖项为支持比赛提供资金，并抵消团队奖金、通信和安全设备租赁以及其他比赛费用等费用。

This grant provides support for the Challenge X Advanced Vehicle Competition. This competition is jointly sponsored by the NSF, the Department of Energy, Natural Resources Canada, the automotive industry (General Motors) and suppliers such as Cisco Systems, ArvinMeritor, Delphi, and National Instruments. This is a continuation of a highly successful educational experience for undergraduate students at US and Canadian universities. The broader impacts are significant with teams competing in the application of environmentally benign design and manufacturing principles to reduce the energy and environmental impacts in the product life cycle of trucks and sport utility vehicles (SUVs). It has the goal of designing and competing commercially producible vehicles that are simultaneously comfortable, safe, road-reliable, commercially viable, and highly fuel efficient.Under this competition, a number of universities compete annually in this event. The award provides funding to support the competition and to offset costs for expenses such as team prizes, communication and safety equipment rentals and other competition expenses.