Cyclo supports student innovation at DIT

January 25, 2013
Cyclo supports student innovation at DIT Pictured at the launch LtoR: Brain Fanning - MD Serfac,Larry Pesin - Cyclo & Gillian Fanning - Serfac.
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The 2013 Cyclo Automotive Technology Student Project Awards have been launched at a special reception at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) in Bolton Street, Dublin. The programme, sponsored by Cyclo and supported by its Irish distributor Serfac, is designed to recognise special achievement in DIT's B Eng Tech in Automotive Management and Technology degree course.


The final year project is a critical module of the three year course and involves over 200 hours self directed learning, presentation, research, design, analysis and application. Students develop their own project themes and can work individually or as part of a group. The overall winners of the project receive a special prize of a trip to a top US motor sport event, such as Indycar or Nascar courtesy of US company, Cyclo.

Introduced by Declan Allen of DIT, Brian Fanning, M.D of Serfac and Larry Pesin Chairman of Cyclo Industries, praised the talented students who took part in last years scheme and encouraging this years participants to maintain and improve on the exceptional standard. Larry Pesin pointed out to the students that they were entering the industry at a landmark time as new power sources, such as electric and hybrid come on stream, equating the change to that of the transformation from horse drawn carriages to combustion engines.

Appropriately the winning 2012 project presented on the evening focused on the conversion of a vehicle from a petrol engine to an all-electric power source. B Eng Tech students Paul Donnelly, Niall O’Brien and Simon Wall presented their project to an interested audience made up of students and representatives from the motor industry. They described how they had taken a basic 1997 1.3 petrol engine Mitsubishi Colt and transformed it into a fully functioning 48volt 3.9kw electric car, using their own skills and very limited resources. There work involved extensive research careful design and engineering. They were also keen to thank sponsors and donating companies for their support, including Serfac who supplied the batteries for the vehicle.

Gillian Fanning of Serfac commented, “We are delighted to collaborate with DIT once again for the Cyclo Student Awards.” She added that the 2012 scheme had been a great success in promoting the Cyclo brand in Ireland and was confident that this year’s scheme would be even better.

Cyclo supports student innovation at DIT A large crowd attended the reception, to launch the 2013 Cyclo Automotive Technology Student Project Awards
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