"Many ideas have emerged from government, industry and academia regarding how best to inspire and support innovation, but nothing spurs creativity and innovation more than a combination of incentive and challenge: a reward for achievement, combined with the urgency of a dare to succeed and the reality that we must race against others. We are at our best when we compete." – Dean Pines
Clark School Competition Teams
2018 Mechanical Engineering Alumni Cup Team
Teams from each of the Clark School’s departments go head to head in an ultimate showdown for bragging rights and glory, competing in a spirited competition judged by the Clark School faculty and a panel of notable alumni.
Learn MoreThe student members Terps Racing team feel the need for speed, building winning race cars with a history of excelling in motorsports all over the US. Competition victories include a National Championship in the Sports Car Club of America Solo Formula SAE Class, where the team’s car set a new event speed record. Formula SAE® is a student design competition organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers).
Learn MoreClark School students participate in the Department of Energy’s ten-part Solar Decathlon competition. Teams design and construct a solar-powered house over the course of two years, with award-winning results.
Learn MoreWhat’s the future of transportation look like? For many, it might look like an almost frictionless, magnetically-levitated pod hurtling at near super-sonic speeds through a tube in near vacuum, in other words, the Hyperloop. Clark School students on the bleeding edge of transportation’s future developed a Hyperloop pod prototype named Prometheus that was tested on SpaceX’s mile long test track in Hawthorne, California.
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