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STUDENT
Shawn Schneider leads the pack
for Clarkson University during the
2020 SAE Clean Snowmobile
Challenge Endurance Event, in
which the team placed first with
an average of 33 mpg.
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 2019 FALL
SEMESTER, a
group of Clarkson University Diesel
Sled seniors and I were looking at leaving behind
a team of one underclassman. The team was
struggling, coming off a last-place finish in March
2019, but put our noses to the grindstone to
prove ourselves at the 2020 SAE Clean
Snowmobile Challenge.
After recruiting heavily the first weeks of the
semester, a strong new team formed and was
welcomed with a new Polaris Titan Adventure 155
chassis (courtesy of Polaris Inc.) and a new
Caterpillar C1.1 industrial diesel engine (courtesy
of Milton CAT and in memory of R.B. Smith).
The challenge was presented, and fitting the
largest-displacement diesel engine ever to go
into a commercial snowmobile chassis while
actually improving structural integrity was the
task. Courtesy of a 3D scanning sponsorship
from Creaform, and an engine model courtesy of
Clarke Powered Solutions, the entire design of
the snowmobile was constructed in Solidworks
and put to the test.
COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (CAD)
Clarkson University has participated in the SAE
Clean Snowmobile Challenge since the first
4 February 2021
CLARKSON UNIVERSITY
STUDENT ENGINEERS
BREAK RECORDS
AT SNOWMOBILE
COMPETITION
Emphasis on testing
helped propel the Clarkson
team to a first-place
finish in the Diesel Class
of the 2020 SAE Clean
Snowmobile Challenge.
Clarkson Diesel Sled team photo at the 2020 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge.
competition, in 2000. For 18 years, the team entered the gasoline class of
the competition, and watched as the competition grew and evolved. Finally,
in 2018, the team jumped on the diesel snowmobile train and attempted to
partake in the loftier challenge. The diesel snowmobile class presented all of
the same challenges as the gasoline class, except with the added challenge
of reengineering a snowmobile chassis to host a hefty diesel engine.
Acknowledging that the main flaw of Clarkson's 2019 snowmobile resided
in a lack of design and testing, compounded by the issue of mounting a
massive 1.1-L diesel engine inside an engine bay designed for an 800-cc
gasoline engine (the team was previously using a 0.7-L Perkins engine), the
Clarkson team leaders decided to make the main goal of the project to
MOMENTUM
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GENERATION
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