Positive Spin Committee Meeting (8/13/13):
Upon the start of the upcoming Fall semester, a team of mechanical and aerospace engineering students at WVU will begin the team’s third year of participation in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Human Powered Vehicle Challenge (HPVC). The competition encourages students to demonstrate the application of sound engineering design principles in the development of sustainable and practical transportation alternatives. For each of the past two years, the WVU team has ranked top 10 in the overall scoring which consists of a design event, a speed/drag race event, an innovation event, and an endurance race. The WVU HPVC team is interested in exploring the opportunity to work with Positive Spin not only to provide a means of teaching team members basic shop and bicycle maintenance skills, but also to serve as a resource of competent mechanics to aid in Positive Spin’s efforts. At this time, the team has proposed to dedicate 1 class period per week in which team members will volunteer at the Positive Spin facility (further details will be provided once the students are able to meet as a team). Dr. Konstantinos Sierros (team advisor) and Andrew Hoover (team leader) hope that the Positive Spin committee members are equally excited to begin a mutual collaboration with the HPVC team. Please feel free to contact either Dr. Sierros or Andrew at any time using the following contact information:Dr. Konstantinos A. Sierros ESB, Evansdale Drive, Room G-70 Morgantown, WV, 26505 Phone: 304-293-3420 Email: Kostas.Sierros@mail.wvu.edu Andrew Hoover
Will Ravenscroft Rm 551A ESB West Virginia University 304-293-9943