WABI Reports on UMaine’s Chem-E-Car Team’s Trip to Regional Competition
WABI (Channel 5) reported members of the University of Maine’s Chem-E-Car team will take their shoebox-sized car to the University of Connecticut this weekend to participate in the Northeast Regional competition. The Chem-E-Car Competition is a program of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). College students design and build cars powered by a chemical energy source. The goal is to carry a specified load over a determined distance and stop as close as possible to the finish line. UMaine student Barbara Bemis said during practice that the team still has to make tweak the car’s fuel cell.