A team of Brigham Young University student engineers designed an innovative and cost-effective apparatus that enables impoverished East African women to turn abundant coconuts into valuable coconut oil.

As part of the PACE program, engineering students and faculty used their foreign language skills to lead collaborators from 20 universities in nine countries in designing and constructing a Formula One race car that was shipped to sponsor General Motors in July.

A paper co-authored by Dr. Rollin Hotchkiss and former graduate student Brad Singley was unanimously selected as this year's Best Zone Paper by the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).