{"id":7131,"date":"2015-05-07T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2015-05-07T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T14:46:13","slug":"niu-eco-marathon-engineers-exchange-cars-with-jay-leno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2015\/05\/niu-eco-marathon-engineers-exchange-cars-with-jay-leno.html","title":{"rendered":"Will NIU Shell Eco-marathon Engineers Exchange Cars with Jay Leno?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7136\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog-1-615x410.jpg\" alt=\"Shell Eco-marathon Americas Day Two\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog-1-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog-1-728x485.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/niu.edu\/ceet\/\">Northern Illinois University<\/a> (NIU) College of Engineering and Engineering Technology has strong competitive, Society of Automotive and Aerospace Engineering teams in FSAE, BAJA, Clean Snowmobile, Aero Design and Supermileage.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/NIUSupermileage\/\">NIU Supermileage Team<\/a> competes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shell.com\/global\/environment-society\/ecomarathon.html?gclid=CLWK7s7sr8UCFQQWHwod50wAtQ\">Shell Eco-marathon<\/a>, a global program that challenges high school and college student teams to design, build and test the most energy-efficient vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dk7OVfAPeqA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NIU Supermileage Team helped promote the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shell.com\/global\/environment-society\/ecomarathon\/events\/americas.html\">Shell Eco-marathon Americas<\/a> Event by recording a television commercial with Jay Leno.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7137\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog3-615x410.jpg\" alt=\"NIU Supermileage Team SolidWorks Teacher Blog3\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog3-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog3-728x486.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-Team-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NIU has a multidiscipline engineering team.\u00a0 Four team members traveled to California to film at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/jay-lenos-garage\">Jay Leno\u2019s Garage<\/a> NBC TV show. \u00a0Mechanical engineering graduate student <strong>Kallol Barai<\/strong>, senior <strong>Lindsey<\/strong> <strong>Dodis<\/strong> (mechanical engineering, mechatronics and robotics), senior mechanical engineering major<strong> Kevin<\/strong> <strong>Kuebrich<\/strong> and junior energy and environmental technology student <strong>Christian<\/strong> <strong>McAdoo<\/strong> represented NIU at the Shell-NBC commercial.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7135\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog2.jpg\" alt=\"NIU Supermileage SolidWorks Teacher Blog2\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/NIU-Supermileage-SolidWorks-Teacher-Blog2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you NIU Supermileage team for sharing with the SolidWorks Community.\u00a0 Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Illinois University (NIU) College of Engineering and Engineering Technology has strong competitive, Society of Automotive and Aerospace Engineering teams in FSAE, BAJA, Clean Snowmobile, Aero Design and 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