Have you ever wanted to know what goes in a battery? How about how a fuel cell works? How electricity can be produced from heat? In this DeCal, students will discover the answers to these questions through hands-on, team-based laboratory projects. Students in this course will advance their scientific and engineering knowledge while developing communication and laboratory skills.

Students will be placed on subteams comprised of 4-7 members and work on a laboratory project over the course of the semester. Each team will hold a weekly worksession for 2-3 hours during which the project manager will lead the team in designing and running experiments or building structural components of the car. In addition, there will be lectures every other week, in which we will cover topics in chemical engineering research that relate to our projects including battery science, fuel cells, and kinetics.

The grading will be based primarily off of attendance and an end-of-semester report. All worksessions and lectures are mandatory, and students are allowed to make up for absences with short written reports. The end-of-semester report is a report in the style of a scientific paper in which students discuss their team's experiments and future areas of research.

APPLICATIONS WILL OPEN DURING THE 2ND WEEK OF CLASSES. For now, fill out the interest form here to receive email updates about the infosession and application: https://forms.gle/iD2qqEvfykQJDznk7 Students will be selected on the basis of availability and interviews. During the application process, all students will provide their weekly availability and will do a short interview with several of our project managers. Students be selected based on their preferred subteams and based on their availability to attend each subteam's worksession. If there are not enough spots to accommodate everyone interested in a subteam, students will be selected based on their interest, attitude, and experience from the interviews. We have enough spots for approximately 60 students, and we strive to be as inclusive as possible! We encourage all interested students to apply, especially underclassmen with little or no previous lab experience.