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Students Create Green MRO Concepts at 2008 Boeing Shanghai Challenge

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News 

August 1, 2008

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BEIJING, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Students from Northwest
Polytechnic University, Wuhan University and Huazhong University of Science
and Technology earned the top three prizes in the 2008 Boeing Shanghai
Challenge for their concepts about how to operate an aviation maintenance,
repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in a more environmentally progressive
fashion.

The Boeing Shanghai Challenge, hosted by Boeing (NYSE: BA), Boeing
Shanghai Aviation Services, Tsinghua University and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, invited teams of students from across China to
prepare “green” concepts for the Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services MRO
operation.

More than 35 teams from 10 top universities and five aeronautical
universities in China participated. The entries were judged on creativity
of solution, technical feasibility, depth and completeness of technical
analysis, and clarity of presentation.

After a blind review by a panel consisting of Boeing executives and
university faculty from participating institutions, the top five teams were
invited to come to Beijing to make a final presentation to Boeing to
determine the top three “all-around” winners. The winners received prizes
of US$1,500, $1,000, and $750 at an award presentation ceremony on July 9
in Beijing. The three top winners were: Research on Green Disposal of Aging
Aircraft by Northwestern Polytechnical University, Building an
Environmental and Efficient MRO Supply Chain by Wuhan University and
Environmental Progress and Practice: Improving the Environmental
Effectiveness of Boeing Pudong MRO by Huazhong University of Science and
Technology team.

Students from Tsinghua University and Huazhong University of Science
and Technology won special awards for Technical Merit and Creative Merit
for their respective projects.

“The Boeing Shanghai Challenge is an important milestone of Boeing’s
commitment to create an MRO business in China that reduces the
environmental footprint of the existing MRO supply chain within aviation
industry,” said Per Noren, leader of Environmental Strategy for Boeing’s
Commercial Aviation Services group. “We will continue to cooperate with
leading academic institutes to leverage the competence, analytical
capacity, innovations, energy and skills of students and faculty members to
create a better future for our world.”

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