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EAS speaks to Doug Fraser, Present Senior Research Engineer, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, and Founder and Director of Formula Hybrid competition.Engineering students across the country are losing sleep and slacking on their other subjects. So says the founder of Formula Hybrid, Doug Fraser, who came on the show to give us a preview of what to expect in this year’s competition. Formula Hybrid takes place April 27 – 30, 2015 at the new Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire.  Founded and run by the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth since 2006, Formula Hybrid takes place each spring at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. The competition is part of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Collegiate Design Series and is regarded as the most complex and dynamic of the series. Formula Hybrid, according to the website, is an interdisciplinary design and engineering challenge for undergraduate and graduate university students. They must collaboratively design and build a