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021023 Winnipeg - DAVID LIPNOWSKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS (October 02, 2013) (L-R front row) Formula Electric team members and Engineering students, Kevin Lamothe, Nishant Balakrishnan, Matthew Riesmeyer, and and Chief Program Engineer Electrified Powertrain Programs and Integration, for the Ford Motor Company, Gilbert (Gil) Portalatin. (L-R back frow) Formula Electric team members and Engineering student Graeme Smith, and University of Manitoba Faculty of Engineering advisor Ed Hohenberg. Gilbert (Gil) Portalatin spoke to students and members of the Manitoba chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers at the University of Manitoba Wednesday afternoon.