CONTENTS VOLUME 14 ISSUE 3 7 EDITORIAL 2 You help yourself when you express gratitude BENEFITS U 4 Benefits 5 Spring 2023 Textbook Stipend Winner: Yubo Fu STUDENT GENERATION FEATURE 7 Teams from University of Illinois and ETS earn top Formula SAE honors Illini Motorsports repeats as king of the IC-powered realm while Montreal universities do same in the EV-powered realm. FEATURE 12 Baja SAE's best Teams from University of Michigan and Ecole de Technologie Superieure find themselves at their regular spots atop the Baja SAE world with one competition remaining. FEATURE 16 Teams soar at SAE Aero Design Only one team captured two SAE Aero Design 1st-place finishes. You guessed it: the one from Georgia Tech. 25 20 A year of firsts at Formula Hybrid & Electric 22 New teams make their mark in second iteration of AutoDrive Challenge FEATURE 25 Winter winners Teams from University of Wisconsin and Clarkson University finish first in their respective classes at the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2023. FEATURE 30 A formula for real-world experience Student engineers soak up lessons from an army of autoindustry and racing volunteers at Formula SAE Michigan. SAE NEWS 33 Get recognized with an SAE student award 34 " SAE helped me get my dream job " 35 SAE to standardize Tesla NACS charging connector CAREER CORNER 36 Boost self-confidence and create your impact 34 ON THE COVER A sampling of vehicles and vehicle technologies developed by students participating in SAE collegiate-level competitions. BOTTOM RIGHT PHOTOS: Daniel Nehmer; REMAINING PHOTOS: SAE International MOMENTUM September 2023 1