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Challenge team. Each of these pictures includes captions that
indicate what the picture is showing, where the picture was taken
as well as names of those in the picture.
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Presentation of the Ford Hybrid Escape to be used as the vehicle platform for Virginia Tech‟s 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge entrant.
Pictured here is the entire Virginia Tech team (graduate and undergraduate students).
Directly in front of the vehicle, kneeling, are Dr. Charles Reinholtz (Mechanical Engineering Professor) and the three Ford representatives
who worked to have these vehicles donated to the team.
DARPA Site Visit October 23, 2006. Photo taken in front of Hancock Hall on the Virginia Tech campus.
Pictured from left to right: Stephen Cacciola (MSME 2007), Andrew Bachca (VT ‟06 Graduate, TORC Technologies), Patrick Currier
(kneeling, MSME), Dr. Al Wicks (Professor, Mechanical Engineering), Mr. Norm Whitaker (DARPA Project Manager), Dr. Charles Reinholtz
(Professor, Mechanical Engineering), Dr. Dennis Hong (Professor, Mechanical Engineering), David Anderson (MSME 2007), Mike Webster
(MSME 2007), Dave van Covern (MSME 2007)
The Ford Escape shown on the right will be used in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
Virginia Tech
Urban Challenge
is using a grey
Ford Hybrid
Escape as its
platform for the
2007 DARPA
Urban Challenge.
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student, Patrick Currier, writing code for the vehicle‟s operating system.
Virginia Tech Undergraduate students Nathan Greene and Chad Dorney working to implement the new vehicle power systems.
Virginia Tech students Nikolas Macko (BSME „07) and Jesse Farmer (MSME ‟08) collaborating on the vehicle power systems.
Caterpillar representatives visit Virginia Tech on March 13, 2007, to present a check for $100,000 to the Urban Challenge Team.
Shown in the picture from left to right: Dr. Al Wicks (Professor, Mechanical Engineering); Dr. Charles Reinholtz (Professor, Mechanical
Engineering); Caterpillar Representative; Caterpillar Representative; Dr. Dennis Hong (Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Caterpillar representatives visit Virginia Tech on March 13, 2007, to present a check for $100,000 to the Urban Challenge Team.
Shown in the picture is the entire Virginia Tech DARPA Urban Challenge team around the “VT” at the entrance to campus.
Caterpillar representatives visit Virginia Tech on March 13, 2007, to present a check for $100,000 to the Urban Challenge Team.
Shown in the picture is the entire Virginia Tech DARPA Urban Challenge team around the “VT” at the entrance to campus.
Caterpillar representatives visit Virginia Tech on March 13, 2007, to present a check for $100,000 to the Urban Challenge Team.
Caterpillar representatives visit Virginia Tech on March 13, 2007, to present a check for $100,000 to the Urban Challenge Team.