The leader in advocating, designing, and building plug-in hybrid cars will appear Oct. 9 in the "What Physicists Do" public lecture series at Sonoma State University.
UC Davis mechanical engineering professor Andrew Frank will speak in SSU's newly-remodeled Darwin 103. Coffee, cookies, and conversation are available in the Darwin Lobby beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Frank, who has been featured in media from the Wall Street Journal to Popular Mechanics and several television stations, has been working on plug-in cars since long before the Prius was introduced.
"I have always felt it was possible to build a car that gets more than 100 miles per gallon; it's what this country needs," says Frank, who promises to describe a way to transition from oil-powered transportation without a disturbance in our social structure.
For more information, visit http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/wpd/ or send e-mail to phys.astro@sonoma.edu or phone (707) 664-2119.
