Ladies and Gentlemen,
After dodging the rain of September 14th and moving the car show to Sept 21st, we have seen a fairly successful show of automotive glory. For those of you who missed it, we had an exciting turnout this year at Elbel field. The weather was quite nice for it being towards the end of September and we even got a gorgeous burnout of a Corvette by General Motor's own Dean Guard. How's that for panache? The Exec board thought it was a great success and we were very excited to start of the school year with a bang. This leads off another great year of MSAE. We have some exciting presentations coming up in the near future. For those of you in Ann Arbor, our first will be given this Tuesday (September 30th) by General Motor's John Bucknell. He is part of GM's Powertrain division and will be speaking about improving energy efficiency in the automotive industry (for more description see our website!). For those of you who are beginning to think we are just a front for the General we will be having a speaker from CPI come in and we are also actively looking for speaker from other OEM's and suppliers. Suggestions are welcome! Speaking of GM though just earlier this month the release of photos of the production version of the Chevy Volt have been released and speaking for myself I was and currently am very excited about this car! I know I know there have been a lot of naysayers on the web and in the news but as engineers( and non-engineers alike) I encourage you to take a good look at the specs and the technology that went into this car. For instance this car is supposed to be getting 40 miles of battery life even after 10 years of use! For anyone that has a laptop they know that is pretty fantastic! With those last words I leave you to contemplate the future of the automotive industry. Until next post!
John W. Schmotzer
MSAE Exec Board Member
Webmaster/Administrator
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