08-21-2013, 07:21 PM
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S.A.E. Supermileage
If you haven't run across this yet it's worth doing an IMAGE search for.
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08-21-2013, 08:56 PM
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Nice collection, this one is especially pleasing to the eye.
Supermileage team proves nation
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For the second consecutive year, NIU’s delegates to the Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) Supermileage competition in Marshall, Mich., won first place of the United States teams and third place overall. - See more at: Supermileage team proves nation
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08-21-2013, 09:12 PM
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They talk about the learning experience, which is what it's really about.
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08-23-2013, 11:21 AM
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"Learning experience"? Sorry, we shipped all our manufacturing overseas so the 1% could make another $15/item. Only Asian automotive engineers are thus entitled to learning experiences as what we do here is no longer relevant. Worse, even, as British engineers learned to their chagrin from the 1920's onwards.
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08-23-2013, 07:51 PM
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OK... it's a fun time-filling exercise for some in their pursuit of that worthless degree. They will have more college-days stories to tell their latte-serving co-workers.
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08-24-2013, 01:58 AM
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"Learning experience"? Sorry, we shipped all our manufacturing overseas so the 1% could make another $15/item. Only Asian automotive engineers are thus entitled to learning experiences as what we do here is no longer relevant. Worse, even, as British engineers learned to their chagrin from the 1920's onwards.
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Manufacturing and engineering are two separate things. You might be surprised how much of our cars is engineered right here in Michigan.
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08-25-2013, 09:15 AM
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I'd say the two go hand-in-hand. The idea of separating them is recent, and not "better". The user may be overseas from the manufacturer, but the combination of engineering/manufacturing being in the same place is a one-two punch that other combinations lack. And always will. Who for example, will examine failures? And right them? Etc. Specific geographic concentrations of people have historically been the strength behind plenty of products, be it the modern example of Silicon Valley, or older, as with Bruges, Belgium.
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