Tag: human-powered vehicle

UMR’s Human-Powered Vehicle Team wins national championship

Posted by on May 14, 2007

A student design team at the University of Missouri-Rolla has won a national championship. UMR won its sixth-straight East Coast championship in human-powered vehicle racing May 11-13 in Ocala, Fla. The UMR team had already won the 2007 West Coast championship, which was held April 13-15 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California.         

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UMR team feels the need for human-powered speed

Posted by on March 27, 2007

A racing team at the University of Missouri-Rolla has a national reputation for engineering some of the best student-built vehicles on the road. But when it’s time for the team to compete, crazy things can happen.         

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UMR wins fifth-straight human-powered vehicle championship

Posted by on May 8, 2006

A Human-Powered Vehicle Team from the University of Missouri-Rolla won its fifth straight championship by placing first overall in the East Coast HPV Challenge May 7 in Charlotte, N.C.         

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A threepeat for UMR’s Human-Powered Vehicle Team

Posted by on May 9, 2004

The second time was a charm for UMR engineering students hoping to claim a share of the national championship in the annual Human-Powered Vehicle Competition (HPVC), held May 7-9 at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

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Running on people power

Posted by on January 27, 2004

UMR’s Human-Powered Vehicle Team, national champions in 2002 and 2003, gears up for a "threepeat" in 2004.

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