then, the endowment has grown to over $450,000. The selective program is now known as the Kettering LEADERS Fellowship.
=== SAE Competition Teams ===
Kettering University competes in the Society of Automotive Engineering’s Collegiate Design Series by building competition vehicles to compete in the Baja SAE, Formula SAE, SAE Aero Design, and SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge competitions. In 2018, Kettering University began competing in the SAE AutoDrive Challenge, in which students convert a Chevrolet Bolt vehicle into a SAE level 4 autonomous vehicle by the 3rd year of competition.
Each year, students design and build vehicles for national and international competitions. In 2015, Kettering's Clean Snowmobile Challenge team finished in the top two at its international competition for the fourth straight year (including a first-place finish in 2014). The Formula SAE team finished fourth out of 100 schools in competition in Brooklyn, Michigan in 2022. Previously, the Formula SAE team finished tenth at its competition …
