Clean Snowmobile Team

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2006

2005

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2003

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COMPETITIONS

'2009 2nd Place Overall, with awards for: lowest in-service emissions, quietest snowmobile, most practical snowmobile, and most sportsmanlike winner

4th place overall finish in 2008, an improvement from 6th place in the previous three competitions

Recipient of Land and Sea Best Performance Award in 2008

Michigan Tech has hosted the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge competition since 2003

2007
6th Place Overall

2006
6th Place Overall (out of 14), 1st in Design, 2nd in Objective Handling, 4th in Emissions

2005
Sixth Place Overall, 2nd in Emissions, 3rd design paper

2004
Second place overall, Best Performance, Quietest, Most Practical

2003
Second place overall (out of 12), Best Design, 2nd in Display
3rd in Brake test, 4th in Emissions, 4th in Noise

2001
Tenth place overall First place oral design presentation
Third place design paper
Third place acceleration
Developed a direct-drive system for the snowmobile.

2000
Fourth place overall
First place hillclimb, World Champions
Second place acceleration
Best Performance Award
Developed a partial flow catalyst for use on a twostroke snowmobile

About the Program

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Clean Snowmobile Challenge is an intercollegiate design competition that is part of the SAE Collegiate Design Series.

The challenge requires student teams to design a snowmobile that achieves reduced emissions and noise characteristics while keeping performance equal to or better than the performance of stock snowmobiles.

Designs are expected to be practical and cost effective. The competition was created due to the recent controversy surrounding the use of snowmobiles in the national parks and the proposed ban.

The competition's goal is to prove that snowmobile emissions are not as high as previously thought, and that significant reductions in noise and emissions levels can be achieved through the use of new technology.

Clean snowmobile is judged on events that evaluate noise level, acceleration, a 100- mile endurance ride, fuel economy, oral and written design reports, overall handling, hillclimb, emission levels, cold start, static display, and cost. The team consists of an average of twenty-five students.

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