Students win best design award at Supermileage competition

A team of engineering students at Penn State Erie have designed a three-wheeled car that gets 540 miles per gallon -- but don't look for it in your local car dealer's showroom next year. The car was the team's entry in the Society of Automotive Engineers' 2003 Supermileage competition. The group tested its design at the national competition this spring and walked away with this year's Best Design Proposal Award, besting teams from schools such as University of California at Berkeley and University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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