We are fundraising for the annual Chem-E-Car Regional Competition in March 2025, with the goal of placing in the top 5, to earn a spot at the National Competition in Fall 2026. This year we aim to bring at least 16 high-achieving members and two unique cars to the Regional Competition. The opportunity for our members to attend this conference allows them to gain valuable networking and hands-on engineering experience beyond what we are able to learn in a lab environment.
The goal of Chem-E Car is to develop and advance our members' engineering and communicative skills, while enabling direct engagement with various areas of the engineering field. Our team consists of 50+ active members from different parts of the UofM campus. We pride ourselves on bringing together students of different disciplines, levels of expertise, and backgrounds in order to not only advance our car, but also offer an opportunity to connect and learn from each other.
At Regional Competition, in addition to the competition between cars, the conference also features a poster competition which allows members to showcase the work that has gone into their cars as well as gain effective presentation skills. Attending this competition also provides them access to the many workshops, career fairs, research presentations, social events, and networking opportunities available at the Regional conference.
As one of the few teams uniquely driven by chemical engineers, we play a crucial role in supporting and advancing engineering education; through our competitions, we also raise awareness of the chemical engineering field and of its importance within the engineering community by sharing our competition experience and encouraging students from all different fields to join. We are committed to ensuring that all students interested in Chem-E-Car will find a welcoming, comfortable environment where they will be able to develop their skills. Chem-E-Car is actively working to diversify its members by doing presentations about our work in non-ChE classes throughout the University, and catering to a wide variety of interests beyond chemical engineering, including coding, data analysis, design and manufacturing, and much more.
By enabling our members to attend this conference and develop our cars to their full potential, they will be able to experience the results of our continued efforts, and be at the forefront of understanding what problems occur to be able to innovate and develop what comes next to be better. They will be able to use this experience to help guide their peers in innovating our current designs, and collaborate to solve whatever challenges appear. Additionally, the conference is extremely beneficial in exposing our members to other universities' creative ideas, and their work may inspire us to grow beyond what we ever thought possible.
