NSF Sponsorship of Faculty Award for the 1999 FutureCar Challenge

这笔拨款为未来汽车竞赛提供支持。本次竞赛由美国国家科学基金会、能源部和汽车行业联合主办，以支持新一代汽车合作伙伴计划（PNGV）。它的目标是设计和竞争商业上可生产的汽车，同时舒适、安全、可行驶、商业上可行和高效节能。PNGV项目的目标是开发技术，使汽车的燃油效率达到每加仑80英里。在未来汽车竞赛中，许多大学每年都参加这项赛事。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 FutureCar Competition. This competition is jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the automotive industry in support of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) program. It has the goal of designing and competing commercially producible automobiles that are simultaneously comfortable, safe, roadable, commercially viable, and highly fuel-efficient. The goal of the PNGV program is the development of technologies that will enable cars that have a fuel efficiency of 80 miles per gallon. Under the FutureCar Competition, a number of universities compete annually in this event. This 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.