Abeg we are good jor!
Students of Faculty of Engineering, University of Benin, called
Team UNIBEN, broke grounds in an international competition –
Shell Eco Marathon in Europe and South Africa in Oct. 2014 and
won a distinguishing award for ‘most innovative vehicle design’
throughout Africa with its made in Nigeria car called Ecocruise.
Shell Eco Marathon is a global competition that challanges
students to build, test and drive fuel efficient vehicles. In other
words, all the cars built are set to race and the vehicle that goes
the farthest on the least amount of fuel automatically wins.
Team UNIBEN has previously also broken a record when they
attended the Shell eco-marathon Europe in may 2014 with its first
made in Nigeria car Tuketuke, making it the first team from Sub
Saharan Africa to participate in the Shell eco-marathon. These
two cars were handmade by these students alone in the
workshop.
Tuketuke has innovative features like automatic windscreen wiper,
button actuated gears, fingerprint access, ankara interior and
fibreglass body. Both cars won all 10 technical and safety
inspections, which I might add, are world standard, that qualified
them to race on the track.
They are currently taking yet another challenge to build two cars
that will participate in another shell eco-marathon in the
Netherlands next year.
Students involved include: Osas Omijie, Festus ibidapo, adekola
adeyemi, abdulmalik tajliad, Daniel okwoka, justice Oyemike,
emmanuel Ajari, eloghosa iyamu, James itoro, Jennifer orji, Anne
monye, Michael olukoya,and Victor adegboye, 13 students in total
supervised by Professor Akii Ibhadode (Winner, NLNG Award for
Science, 2010).
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