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Rose-Hulman Human Powered Vehicle Team

The Rose-Hulman Human Powered Vehicle Team wants to win again in 2010. For the past two years, they have taken home first place overall in both the East and West Regional Competitions of the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge.

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Rose-Hulman Triumphs at HPV East and West Competitions

A team of students from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., took the top prizes at both Human Powered Vehicle Challenges that ASME held this spring. The HPV East and West events, in which students put aerodynamically designed vehicles through speed and endurance tests on designated courses, ...

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Rose Human Powered Vehicle team defends title

Nothing may be sweeter than that first taste of victory, but the second triumph may have been more gratifying — and dramatic — for Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s team in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Human Powered Vehicle East Coast Challenge.

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Our Team

The Human Powered Vehicle Team is a group of undergraduate engineering students who plan, test, build, and race HPVs. We build a vehicle to race in the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Each year, the team starts from scratch to build a brand new vehicle which must be completed and ready to race by spring. The team is always looking for new members.

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National Champions

2009 Team

2009 ASME HPVC West Coast
Portland, OR

First Place Overall

First Place Design Report
First Place Male Sprint
Second Place Female Sprint
Fourth Place Endurance Event

2009 ASME HPVC East Coast
Philadelphia, PA

First Place Overall

First Place Design Report
First Place Male Sprint
Second Place Female Sprint
Second Place Drag Race