You don't necessarily spend the rest of your career working in the automotive industry. You could go and design toasters, but you're going to be better at designing toasters than someone who hasn't practiced. Matthews said that while students take away a greater understanding and appreciation of the roles of automotive engineers in the workplace, the industry benefits as well. Students' innovative ideas help shape the future of the automotive field, he said. This on-board distillation nobody had ever thought about it.
Students do some very big things and they always come up with things that are interesting.
The University open-house, held in March, highlighted some of the exceptional work being done at the University. Whether or not they go into automotive engineering is beside the point. In addition to their participation in community events and technical contributions to the field, SAE students have made presentations, most recently at this year's SAE World Congress, held March 5 through 8 in Detroit, the group made a presentation to the other students and professional members of SAE's worldwide branches. The contest asks students from various SAE branches across the world to present topics on an issue. When we thought about it, we said 'We succeed every day because we have enormous industry support.