Joe Ritter and John Broere<\/p>\n
The Solar Car Challenge: Designing for the Future (The Secrets of the Prinicipia Solar Car Project)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n TONIGHT – Wednesday, Feb. 26th, 7:30 p.m., Reilly Room<\/strong><\/p>\n The Principia Solar Car Project began in 1991 with a handful of highly motivated liberal arts students.\u00a0 For the past 12 years, the project has consistently met its goals through active learning and application of engineering principles.\u00a0 The team has consistently\u00a0 placed in the top seven in the numerous cross-country races, a record particularly remarkable given that Principia College is a small liberal arts school in Elsah, Ill., competing against top engineering universities, multinational corporations, and engineering firms.<\/p>\n Joe Ritter joined the faculty in 1995 as an assistant professor of chemistry, attaining the rank of professor a decade later.\u00a0 He has served as chair of the Chemistry Department, director of the Engineering Science Program, and faculty advisor to the Principia College Solar Car Project.\u00a0 A longtime faculty mentor with invaluable experience and irrepressible enthusiasm for project-based learning, he assumed the post of assistant dean of academics in 2008.<\/p>\n John Broere is an instructor of computer science at Principia.\u00a0 He has been a faculty adviser to the Principea Solar Car Team since 2007, and was a member of the team as an undergraduate student from 1998-2002.\u00a0 During his time with the team, he has had the opportunity to participate in numerous major races and events both nationally and internationally.\u00a0 He also was instrumental in erecting a wind test tower on Principia’s campus to investigate the viability of using wind power to supplement the College’s energy supply.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joe Ritter and John Broere<\/p>\n The Solar Car Challenge: Designing for the Future (The Secrets of the Prinicipia Solar Car Project)<\/p>\n TONIGHT – Wednesday, Feb. 26th, 7:30 p.m., Reilly Room<\/p>\n The Principia Solar Car Project began in 1991 with a handful of highly motivated liberal arts students.\u00a0 For the past 12 years, the project has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212297,212304,251,11974],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advising","category-cocurricular-events","category-employment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}