DIESEL GETS A PROMOTION AT SAE CLEAN SNOWMOBILE CHALLENGE

The main rules change for the 2015 season is creation of a new engine category (diesel), the event's organizer notes in providing an overview of the SAE Collegiate Design Series competition.

IN ANTICIPATION OF the 2015 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge (CSC) slated for March 2-7 in Houghton, MI, MOMENTUM interviewed the man who brings it all together, Jay Meldrum, the CSC Organizer and Executive Director of the Keweenaw Research Center at Michigan Tech, which hosts the event. He's been involved with the SAE International Collegiate Design Series (CDS) event for 12 years, taking over organizational responsibilities 10 years ago from CSC Co-founders Dr. Lori Fussell, President of the Institute of Science, Ecology and the Environment, and Bill Paddleford, late Teton County Commissioner.

Here are edited excerpts from our conversation with him about the event in which teams take a manufacturer's production snowmobile and upgrade it for improved emissions and noise performance.