september 2019
Cars of the Future
Sun
Power
BY PAT BRADFORD
GRADUATES of
the Mechanical
Engineering
Technology
program at Cape Fear
Community College aim to
work in design, develop-ment,
testing and repair of
equipment in manufactur-ing,
fabrication, research
and development, and ser-vice
industries. In their
fall 2018 and winter 2019
classes, two groups of stu-dents
tackled solar cars and
solar design.
Funded with two grants,
students designed cars,
making a presentation at
the end of the fall semester.
“ Then in the spring semes-ter,
we started building,”
says Daniel Hendrickson,
Mechanical Engineering
Technology program
director.
Students “working a few
extra nights and weekends,”
Hendrickson says, built four
solar cars that debuted in
the 2019 Azalea Festival
Parade, cheered by specta-tors
along the two-mile
route. Required gear inside
was simply a brake, an
emergency brake, seat belt,
fire extinguisher and driver’s
helmet.
The dense foam cars built
from scratch can travel at
speeds of 20-25 mph and
dragonflies
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