March
23, 2003 11:15 ET
University
of Idaho Wins Gage Fuel Economy Award At Fourth Annual SAE
Clean Snowmobile Challenge
HOUGHTON, Mich. –-- The University of Idaho’s entry
in the fourth annual SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge has received
an award for best overall fuel economy in the four-day competition
held here March 19-22.
The Gage Products “Best Fuel Economy” award was presented
to the university’s 14-member team, at an honors banquet in Houghton
on Saturday evening. The University of Idaho is located in
Moscow, Idaho.
Colorado State University (Fort Collins) took second place
in the fuel economy event, followed by the University of Waterloo
(Waterloo, Ontario, Canada); the University of Wyoming (Laramie),
and Michigan Technological University (Houghton).
The winning entry was equipped with a BMW motorcycle engine
which achieved a fuel-economy average of 20 miles per gallon
during a 60-mile endurance run.
Members of the University of Idaho team included Nathan Bradbury,
Brad Devorak, Chris Dux, Mike Fernald, Andrew Findlay, Forrest
French,Todd Freeman (co-leader), Jason Harwood, Stephen Lyda,
Jon Pentzer, Jason Stevens, Nate Wasankari, Scott Wernhoff,
Dana Wenstrom (co-leader) and Dr. Karen Den Braven (faculty
advisor).
Held
in Michigan for the first time, the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge
was hosted by Michigan Technological University, its mechanical
engineering department and the school’s Keweenaw Research
Center. Twelve university teams from the U.S. and Canada registered
for the competition, which is designed to encourage the development
of environmentally friendly snowmobiles.
“Gage
is especially pleased to have played a role in a competition
that not only encourages the development of outstanding student
engineers, but works to improve the environment as well,”
a Gage spokesman said.
A
specialist in the production of test fuels for the automotive
industry, Gage has provided its customers with more than 1,000
different test-fuel blends over the past five years. The company’s
custom-fuel customers include Bosch, Visteon, TI Automotive,
Inergy Automotive Systems, Eaton Corporation, Detroit Testing
Services Group and Stant Manufacturing.
Headquartered
in Ferndale, MI, Gage has facilities in Germany, the United
Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil and Mexico. A leader
in the field of sustainable manufacturing and solvent remanufacturing
programs, its paint-system solvent-recovery processes are
used in a majority of North America’s automotive assembly
plants and have attracted the attention of European and Asia-Pacific
manufacturers as well.
Additional
information about Gage is available on the Internet at www.gageproducts.com.
Further details about the 2003 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge
may be found at www.mtu.edu.
Source:
Gage Products Company
CONTACT:
Company Contact: Tom Murray of Gage Products Company, Phone: 248-691-6737, Email: tmurray@gageproducts.com; or Media Contact: Larry Weis
of AutoCom Associates, +1-248-647-8621, E-Mail: lweis@usautocom.com , for Gage
Products Company
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