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

这笔赠款为挑战赛X高级车辆大赛提供支持。本次比赛由美国国家科学基金会、加拿大能源部、加拿大自然资源部、汽车行业(通用汽车)以及思科系统、ArvinMeritor、德尔福和国家仪器等供应商联合主办。这是美国和加拿大大学本科生非常成功的教育经验的延续。随着团队竞相应用无害环境的设计和制造原则，以减少卡车和运动型多功能车(SUV)产品生命周期中的能源和环境影响，更广泛的影响是显著的。它的目标是设计和竞争同时具有舒适性、安全性、道路可靠性、商业可行性和高燃油效率的商业可生产汽车。在这项比赛中，许多大学每年都会在这项活动中展开竞争。该奖项提供资金以支持比赛，并抵消团队奖金、通信和安全设备租赁和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.