Schools w/ HPV programs

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AUSTRALIA

Bendigo Senior Secondary College

 
Department: Technology Studies
Rosalind Park BENDIGO 3550 Victoria, Australia 3550
Contact Person: Geoff Pine
Email Address: geoff_pine@bssc.edu.au
Telephone: AUSTRALIA (61 3) 054431 222
FAX: AUSTRALIA (61 3) 54414 548
WWW site: http://www.bssc.edu.au/learning_areas/learning/technology/energy/index.htm
Additional Comments:
This year our students are designing and building 4 vehicles for the 24 hour Energy Breakthrough event held in Maryborough in central Victoria, Australia at the end of November. I have been involved in HPV programs for 8 years and at this college for 4 years.
Two of the vehicles are purely HPVs and the other two are hybrid vehicles which race in a separate class. One of the hybrids is electric/HPV and the other is internal combustion / HPV.
 

Burnie TAFE, Tasmania

 
Contact Ron Susheng or David Kirkham
WWW site: http://www.tafe.tas.edu.au/
have a program making several HPV's including the Skycycle http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/community/ozhpv/skycycle/skycycle.htm (pedal powered aircraft) as well as HPB's, trikes and an ecocar.
Telephone: 0364345867
 
Catholic Regional College Geelong
 
WWW site: http://www.crc.vic.edu.au/hpv
 
At Catholic Regional College we have students of all year secondary levels participating in the HPV program. We build and race new vehicles every year, at the Australian International Pedal Prix and RACV Energy Breakthrough. We always need sponsors! Please have a look at the regularly updated site, made by a Ian Butler, a student.

 

 
 
Kingswood College, Victoria

Coordinating Staff: Andrew Robertson & Di Bambra

WWW site: http://hpv.kingswoodcollege.vic.edu.au/

email contact: danielb@alphalink.com.au
Ph. 03 9890 0677
Fax: 03 9899 5696
355 Station Street Box Hill 3128
P.O. Box 166
Box Hill 3128 Victoria Australia
 At Kingswood College a group of year 11 students are actively involved in the design and construction of our entry into the RACV Energy breakthrough 24-hour endurance race for HPV’s. Our vehicle is a carbon fibre PVC foam sandwich laminated structure that fully encloses the rider. Students involved have designed the vehicle from a "clean sheet", starting effectively from scratch. We will use some commercially available hardware for simplicity and reliability but the platform and overall design is unique.

USA

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Student organization: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Contact: Mike Strasser
Address: HPV Team
Mechanical Engineering Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obipso, CA 93407
WWW: http://entropy.me.calpoly.edu/~hpvasme
Email Address: hpvasme@stn14.me.calpoly.edu
Telephone: (805) 756-1334
FAX: (805) 756-1137
A group of at most 5 students design and build a complete HPV every 3 years. This year we are building a new fairing for last years bike. Our claim to fame is that we consistently create one of the lightest fairings at Collegiate competitions. Our current bike design is a carbon fiber front wheel driven semi- recumbent.
Cal Poly's involvement goes back to early 80's when they designed a tandem fully recumbent HPV.
Cal Poly's speed record was set in 1992 with the 'Intuition'; with rider Greg McNeal it went 54 mph
A Course on Bike Design is taught by:
Bill Peterson: e-mail: wyms@lightspeed.net
WWW: http://www.calpoly.edu/~wpatters/

California State University, Chico

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing
Student organization: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, HPV Team
Contact: Mark Wagner mwagner@ecst.csuchico.edu
Director: Blake Heinlein bhein@ecst.csuchico.edu
Sponsorship Contact: Matthew Campbell matthewc@ecst.csuchico.edu
 
Address: Chico HPV Team
Mechanical Engineering & Manufacturing Department
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA, 95928
 
WWW: http://www.csuchico.edu/asme/hpv/index.html
Email Address: mwagner@ecst.csuchico.edu
Telephone: (530) 898-5346
FAX: 916 898-8775
 
Despite its ongoing reputation as a party school, The CSU Chico
HPV team hasn't built a bike while drunk since the mid 80s, and our race
record shows it. In 1995, we took 3rd overall in Single rider & First
overall in Tandem, in 1996 first in Single rider and Tandem road races.
Last year (1997) we took 2nd place overall in both the Single Rider and
the Tandem competition. We owe these victories to excellent engineering,
hard working and hard riding team members, and generous sponsors.
 
Chico's speed record was set in 1987 when a miniature version of Arnold
Schwarziger (Albert 'The Muscle') drove the HPV 'Cafe Ole' 57.7 mph.
 

 

Carnegie Mellon University

Department: Computer Science/Robotics
Address: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
Contact person: Ben Brown
Email address: hbb@cs.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412-268-7658
FAX: 412-268-1266
Type of program: Nothing formal, just a few interested people. I am interested in combined hand and foot power and energy accumulators. A couple people ride recumbents. If we can get a critical mass of members, we might do something more concrete.
Program started: I've been working on hand/foot power since about 1979.

University of Hawaii

Student Organization: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Contact: Jose’ Arteiro
Address: HPV Team
Mechanical Engineering
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2540 Dole Street, Holmes 302
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/~asme/vehicle/hpv.html
Telephone: (808) 956-7167
Fax: (808) 956-2373
A group of 6 students design, build and test a new HPV every year, as part of their senior design project. Our current HPV is a carbon fiber, short wheel based recumbent; the fairing is made of Kevlar. We use a 700c back wheel and a 20 inch front wheel. Sponsors include DuPont Advanced Composites, Hexcel Corp., UH College of Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering. We have resumed this project in 1995 and since then we have won two National ASME Championships (1995 and 1997).

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department of Mechanical Engineering
MIT room 3-455, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Contact person: David Gordon (Dave) Wilson
Email address: dgwilson@mit.edu
Telephone: (617) 253-5121
FAX: (617) 258-0485
Type of program: There is no formal program on Human Power at MIT.

Several people supervise occasional projects.

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Aero/Astro department, MIT

MIT room 37-475, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
Mark Drela (professor of aeronautics and astronautics)
drela@orville.mit.edu
Ph. (617) 253-0067

Mark Drela did much of the analysis, design and construction work on the HPA Chrysalis, Monarch, Light Eagle and Daedalus. Subsequently he did much of similar work on the HP hydrofoil Decavitator, and piloted it to win the DuPont prize. Specialist in Low-Speed Fluid Dynmaics and Propeller Design and Analysis.

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Ralph A. Gakenheimer

RGAKEN@MIT.EDU
(617) 253 1932
 
Supervises bicycle-transportation projects in the Urban-Studies Department.
 
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Sea Grant Program, MIT
MIT room E38-372, 77 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA 02139, USA
Clifford A. Goudey
cgoudey@mit.edu
ph. (617) 253-7079
Cliff Goudey led the effort to design and build several HP subs which were centered and competed in international HP submarine competitions. He is Marine Advisory Leader with the Sea Grant Program.
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David Gordon (Dave) WIlson
dgwilson@mit.edu
ph. (617)253-5121
Has Edited Human Power, the technical journal of the IHPVA Program since
1984: Has worked on human-power stuff since sponsoring and organizing an
international HPV design competition in 1967, and working in and/or
supervising theses resulting in human-powered lawnmowers, snow-clearers,
branch shredders, boats and hydrofoils as well as recumbent bicycles. These
are mostly described in the first and/or second editions of Bicycling
Science or in Pedal Power.

 

 

University of California, Berkeley

Or, for more information, please contact:
Neal Hartman
PO Box 4803
Berkeley, CA 94704-4803
home: (510) 644-9309
work: (510) 486-7627
email: calhpv@euler.me.berkeley.edu

 

UC Berkeley Human Powered Vehicle Team Cal HPV is a student-run team at the University of California, Berkeley, dedicated to pushing the limits of modern and efficient human-powered transportation (really fast bikes). The team brings together students from many disciplines and backgrounds to work in a real-world engineering situation, providing them with hands-on training in the design, manufacture and testing of advanced composite structures.

CalHPV web page

 

Wayne State University

ASME Students Chapter
WWW page: http://www.eng.wayne.edu/me.html
e-mail address: asme@me1.eng.wayne.edu
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
5050 Anthony Wayne Drive
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Wayne State's ASME homepage
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dr. Chin An Tan, Faculty Advisor of ASME
tan@tan.eng.wayne.edu
(313) 577-8789 (fax)
Mr. Steven Harrison, HPV Team Co-Captain
ssh1@millie.eng.wayne.edu
(313) 577-3387 ASME Office
Mr. Mike Mowett, HPV Team Co-Captain
justbikeit@aol.com
(313) 577-3387 ASME Office
DESCRIPTION:
This years vehicle is again a short wheel base, open rider position, and is fully covered. The frame is constructed out of Aluminum, the fork is made from Chromoly and the fairing was made from Carbon Fiber. A few key design points are that the bike is lower to the ground than last years and the drive train is front wheel drive with all the components being isolated on the fork itself. Note: There are pictures on the web site for a better understanding.

High School Programs

USA

Berthoud High School

Department: Science Department (although this has become multidisciplinary to some extent)
Address: 850 Spartan Ave., Berthoud, CO 80513
Contact Person: Chet Rideout
Email Address: CBRideout@aol.com?bad address?
Telephone: School (970)532-3743; Home (970)226-4363
I teach this unit on alternate transportation to show other directions we can go in getting from point A to point B, emphasizing the nonpolluting advantages of the bicycle, as well as the fact that it takes up much less space. I have a tray full of slides on bikes, mostly recumbents and other HPVs (fully faired trikes, etc.), including fully faired speed contenders including the Cheetah. I also emphasize bicycle touring, mainly self-contained touring. I also have a number of videos I can show from the IHPVC races and the RAAM by tandem which set the new record (7 days 14 hours) years back.
I finish up the unit by allowing the students to try recumbents (I had four out at our track facility last May). I have been doing this for 3 or 4 years now, and an English teacher and social studies teacher joined with me in emphasizing the unit last year. I showed slides (and brought in my recumbent with a trailer) at an elementary school in Fort Collins for the last two years also.
Caron City High School
 
Carson High Cycle Club
Address: Carson City, Nevada 89701
Contact Person: Abe Gissen
E-mail address: gisnar@ix.netcom.com
Telephone: (775) 885 7655
 
We have just formed a bike club to construct and engineer (learn basic design) a fully faired bicycle. We obtained fairing molds form Cal Poly (SLO) thanks to the help of George Leone and have constructed a set of fairings that we are now fitting to a recumbent (modified Festina). We have a long way to go but hope to race the vehicle next spring and summer.

Hamilton Wenham Regional High School

Dept: Applied Technology
Address: 775 Bay Road, So. Hamilton MA 01982
Contact Person: Corley Power
E-mail address:
Telephone: (508) 468-5300
I have been teaching a class on Human Powered Vehicles for the past five years at a high school with an enrollment of about 700 students. We have gone from some very crude designs to some great HPV's.

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