HOUSTON – BP named Team En^X the winner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ultimate Field Trip (UFT) Competition Campus Finals, a contest that asked college students in technical fields from leading US universities to solve real-world energy challenges.
The team of three from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will compete in April against other Campus Finals winners from U.S. universities at BP’s Houston campus.
“We were extremely impressed by the entries from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but ultimately Team En^X was chosen because of its creativity and demonstrated knowledge of critical areas,” said Khymberly Booth, BP’s director of US university relations…
…The 2014 challenge asked students to identify an innovative solution that would significantly reduce energy consumption and could be implemented by 2025, with the potential to be deployed at scale across the energy industry.
The three undergraduate students on Team En^X are: Xingyi Shi, Chemical Engineering (a MITEI 2013 undergraduate researcher); Larissa Kunz, Chemical Engineering; and Emily Yau, Chemical Engineering.
If chosen as the Grand Prize Winners for the U.S., the team will join winners from the four other participating countries — Angola, Canada, United Kingdom and Trinidad and Tobago — on a two-week field trip to BP locations in Alaska and Chicago.
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