Harvard College Human Powered Vehicle TeamHPVT
Project-based engineering team that designs, builds and tests a recumbent bicycle for the ASME competition, aimed at mechanical engineering students.
- Joining
- Open membershipNo experience needed
- When
- AnytimeNo deadline to join
About
The Human Powered Vehicle Team was founded in 2017 to create a human powered vehicle (think: a bicycle) for the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge, an intercollegiate competition held every spring. We do all steps of the bicycle design process from initial brainstorming and research, design in SolidWorks, researching and ordering parts, and finally building, testing, and altering the vehicle.
How to join
- Open membership — Anyone can join: sign up or come to a meeting.
What they do
- Designing and building a human powered vehicle (recumbent bicycle) for the ASME competition
- Full bicycle design process including brainstorming, research, SolidWorks design, ordering parts, building, testing, and altering the vehicle
Mission, in their words
To give mechanical engineering students project experience in a supportive community of engineers.
Sources
- Find a SEAS-affiliated student organizationHarvard page · seen Sep 30, 2026
- CONTACT | harvardhpvtClub website · seen Oct 29, 2026
- ABOUT US | harvardhpvtClub website · seen Oct 29, 2026
- HOME | harvardhpvtClub website · seen Oct 29, 2026
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