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Students give Sunraycer new looli
By Courtney Walker
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It’s shaped like a fish, has four wheels and
runs on solar energy.
The Mach V Sunraycer, a solar powered
vehicle designed by 40 Texas A&M students,
will compete in a 1,200-mile cross-country
race from Indianapolis to Colorado Springs,
Colo., in the Summer of 1997.
The vehicle, driven by one person, uses
solar energy. The energy is converted to elec
tricity using silicon photovoltaic cells that
charge the car’s batteries.
Steve Deel, a Sunraycer team member and a
senior mechanical engineering technology
major, said a typical day’s drive in the race is 120
miles. He said driving involves a lot of strategy.
“It is just so much more demanding than
regular driving because there is no air condi
tioning or insulation and you have to concen
trate on what you’re doing,” Deel said.
One problem team members hope they will
not have is a lack of sunshine. If there is no
sun, the car will not run.
Dennis Waugaman, Sunraycer team adviser
and an associate professor of engineering,
said a fully-charged battery provides enough
power for two hours without the sun. But if it
rains or is cloudy all day the car will run out of
energy and stop.
The Sunraycer team will compete, for the
second time, in the biannual Sunraycer Solar
Vehicle Challenge. But this time the team’s
vehicle, the Mach V, will have a new look.
Odetta Murray, a team member and a
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senior mechanical engineering techni
major, said rebuilding the vehicle gives
dents a chance to put their knowledge n
test and work as a team.
“To do this project we have to work tog
er and there is no room for excuses anc
helping," Murray said.
Waugaman said teams must have the
cle ready for competition by April 25. He
not foresee any delays unless funding does
come through.
“The University is not paying for anyofi
so students are having to get donations
companies to pay for equipment andpe
Waugaman said. “We hope to build thevel
under a $100,000 budget, but we only
$30,000 so far.”
From replacing BMX bicycle tires ih;
off every 30 miles, team members are
pletely redesigning and rebuilding theM
The tires are being replaced with high-!
mance electric vehicle wheels.
Waugaman said the old vehicle was
plain old-fashioned.
“It was our First try and the technoli
more advanced now so we are using the
advanced technology possible," he said.
One of the main changes to the vehicle
the design of the solar collective plates.
In the new’ vehicle, the plates are int
into the skin of the car, unlike last year'sm
when the plates were on a flat panel over
top of the car.
“Instead of having the paint on top of
new car, there will be solar collective pla.
Waugaman said. “The plates are the!
instead of the paint.”
Deel said the new vehicle is completely
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Field inspection work on the
status of Texas A&M residence
halls and University-owned apart
ments, part of a long-range plan to
improve campus housing facilities,
is nearing completion.
The goal of the evaluation,
which began July 15, is to develop
cost estimates, time lines and pri
orities for needed service and
repair projects.
Halff Associates, an architectur
al engineering firm in Dallas, and
R.G. Vanderwall of Boston are per
forming the analysis of the 2.6 mil
lion square feet of campus resi
dence hall and apartment space.
The Department of Residence
Life and Housing is looking at ways
to improve the housing facilities
for students who live on campus.
Ron E. Sasse, director of the
Department of Residence Life and
Housing, said it is more practical to
improve the housing facilities
rather than spend nearly $6 mil
lion to build a new modular dorm.
“We’re looking at putting
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next four years.”
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Ethernet [connections] in all the
dorms in the next four years,”
Sasse said.
In order to improve the housing
facilities, Residence Life and
Housing will continue to increase
housing fees in future semesters.
In a previous interview, Kim
Walter, an assistant to the director
of Residence Life and Housing,
said the increased fees will net
more conveniences for residents.
“The rent increase will be used to
fund cable TV for the dorms,” she
said. “The study will let us know
how we can get cable to the halls.”
In the next few semesters,
Residence Life and Housing will
compete with off-campus rates
and costs.
Sasse said current housing fees
are still less expensive than off-
campus apartments.
Although some students dis
agree, there are others who say
that nothing compares to the
experience of living on campus.
Jesse Czelusta, Residence Hall
Association president, said on-cam
pus living offers many advantages.
“Off-campus [housing] does not
provide the convenience and the
community that on-campus living
does,” Czelusta said.
A&M visitor
dies Tuesday
By Wes Swift
The Battalion
A man visiting Texas AM
attend a conference died Tues?
after suffering heart complicati:
J Jniversity police officials said.
UPD officers received a cal
assistance around 1 p.m. fro
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were helping a man sufferii
from heart problems in the lob!
of Rudder Tower, reports said.
The man was transported
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College Station, where he died
Police and hospital officii
would not release the maj
name pending notificationofi!
next of kin. Police would only
the man was not a student.
Hospital officials also declffi
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to protect the victim’s privacy.
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