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Motivating Students with Bio-Fuel Student Engineering Competition Projects

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College students often express concern regarding the impact of fossil fuels on the environment. Studying bio-fuels allows students to learn about both the fundamental principles of their discipline and broader issues such as understanding the impact of technology in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context. Further, students are motivated by competition. University engineering challenges can be used to intrinsically motivate these students. This paper describes the benefits and challenges for the students and University in participating in the SAE Clean Snowmobile Collegiate Design Series competition.

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Acknowledgment

This work has been conducted with the help of many faculty, staff, students, and external supporters. The author would particularly like to express his gratitude to the following individuals for their ongoing efforts: Dr. Craig Hoff and Dr. Arnaldo Mazzei, SAE Faculty Advisors; and Mr. Ray Rust and Mr. Clint Lee, Engineering Technicians. Additionally, the author would like to thank the our sponsors for their support of these programs.

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  1. Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA

    Gregory W. Davis

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  1. Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria

    Michael E. Auer

  2. International E-Learning Association and Kaleidoscope Learning, New York, New York, USA

    David Guralnick

  3. Ulster University, Belfast, Ireland

    James Uhomoibhi

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Davis, G.W. (2017). Motivating Students with Bio-Fuel Student Engineering Competition Projects. In: Auer, M., Guralnick, D., Uhomoibhi, J. (eds) Interactive Collaborative Learning. ICL 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50337-0_19

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