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How a Vision for a Solar Car Sparked a Career―and MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team

Posted in education, engineering, solar power, sustainability, transportation

Engineering projects need goals, and James Worden ’89 set an especially engaging and enduring one for himself as a high school student in the early 1980s while pursuing his passion for homebuilt go-karts.


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