Sunday, March 11, 2012
Waterloo's Clean Snowmobile Team earned the International Engineering and Manufacturing Award for Best Acceleration in its four-stroke sled by achieving a speed of 72 mph in 500 feet at the 2012 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge, which wrapped up March 10 at Michigan Technological University. The team also received the HB Performance Systems Award for having the best implementation of the HB Trail Trac system. Over 20 teams competed in the challenge that requires students to take a stock snowmobile and reduce its emissions and noise and increase fuel efficiency.