NSF Sponsorship of Faculty Awards for Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions in 2003, 2004, and 2005

这项拨款将用于支持未来卡车挑战赛。这项比赛是由美国国家科学基金会，能源部，加拿大自然资源部，汽车工业，包括福特和通用汽车和供应商，如思科系统，阿文美驰，德尔菲，和国家仪器联合赞助。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。更广泛的影响是显着的团队竞争的应用环境友好的设计和制造原则，以减少能源和环境影响的产品生命周期的卡车和运动型多用途车（SUV）。 它的目标是设计和竞争的商业生产的车辆，同时舒适，安全，道路可靠，商业上可行的，高燃油效率。在这项比赛中，一些大学每年参加这项活动。该奖项提供资金，以支持比赛，并抵消费用，如团队奖金，通信和安全设备租金和其他比赛费用。

This grant provides support for the FutureTruck Challenge. This competition is jointly sponsored by the NSF, the Department of Energy, Natural Resources Canada, the automotive industry including Ford and 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.