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 October 2014. They won an award
for 'most innovative vehicle design' throughout Africa with their made in Nigeria car called Ecocruise.
Shell Eco Marathon is a global
competition that challenges 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.
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).
They are currently taking yet another
challenge to build two cars that will participate in another shell
eco-marathon in the Netherlands next year.
You can follow their complete story by liking their page on Facebook www.facebook.com/eco-tuketuke.
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