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About Us The Clean Snowmobile Challenge is an intercollegiate engineering design competition that challenges engineering students to reengineer an existing snowmobile for improved emissions and noise while maintaining or improving the performance characteristics of the original snowmobile. The SAE Clean Snowmobile Team at Northern Illinois University is currently in its second year. The program started in the hands of four mechanical engineering students as a senior design project. The initial idea was just to convert a snowmobile engine to run on E85 to lower its emissions. It would then be used as a basis to start the team in the future, but the idea grew faster than expected. As word began to spread and the team gathered support, the four students realized that they could take it further and modify a whole snowmobile for CSC 2009. The team is now one of multiple SAE affiliated teams at NIU. It is completely organized and managed by the students with the assistance of an advisor and the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology. All funds have been raised by the team from local donors, commercial sponsors, and the College.
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