Engineering lightweight car research receives $3.7 million boost

A Waterloo Engineering project, headed by mechanical and mechatronics professor Michael Worswick to develop energy-efficient cars through the use of new lightweight materials, will receive $3.7 million in federal funding. The funding announcement, made by Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid March 20 in an Engineering 3 lab, is part of a $34-million initiative for six automotive research projects at universities across Canada.Worswick, a Canada Research Chair, said the work being undertaken is important to the development of more energy-efficient vehicles such as improved battery-hybrid cars.