We chat with Nancy Martinelli from General Motors about what it's like to work for the company and how you can apply!

Amanda Paciorkowski joins us to talk about the new SAE AeroConnect Challenge including its mission to create new connected aircraft solutions to help fight forest fires.

Find more information and register for the competition at www.saeaeroconnectchallenge.com

We talk with Mike Zieman and Spencer Fowler about the updates and changes to the scoring system for Year 2 of the Autodrive Challenge.

Today we talk with three current General Motors employees who participate in the Autodrive Challenge in the first year. We learn about how the competition helped prepare them for their career, how they found themselves at their jobs, and what the day to day of their positions entail.

This week we talk with the team mentors from General Motors including Akram Abdel-Rahman, Bill Materna, and “Mentor of Mentors” Matthew Boyle as we discuss their involvement with the teams, what they learned from the first year of competition, and a little about their careers and the projects they are involved in.

Chris Ciuca, Director of Pre-Professional Education at SAE International and Mark Johnson a Steering Committee Member for Autodrive Challenge from General Motors discuss where did the idea for a collaborative autonomous collegiate competition start, how the partnership between General Motors and SAE International formed for this new technology competition, how are the goals of the competition are relative to the changing mobility industry, how has the end goal of competition at Level 4 been seen in the first Year and moving into Year 2 and how AutoDrive Challenge™ has engaged students in different and new fields?