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EcoCAR Collegiate Competition Team

Goals

To stimulate the development of advanced vehicle technologies that reduce the overall impact of transportation on the environment by designing, building, and refining an alternative fuel and connected/autonomous vehicle that reduces energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and criteria tailpipe emissions while maintaining consumer acceptability, utility, and safety.

Issues Involved or Addressed

Physics-based modeling and simulation-based design of hybrid-electric vehicle powertrains, optimized component sizing and subsystem design based on performance versus cost tradeoffs, design methodologies to ensure reliability and safety, virtual prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop testing, vehicle fabrication and road testing, development of optimal operating and charging strategies, utilization of telemetry and intelligent highway infrastructure to improve energy efficiency, development of automotive human-machine interface.

Partners/Sponsors

U.S. Department of Energy, General Motors, MathWorks, NXP, Intel, dSPACE, Bosch, PACAAR, AAM

Link(s)

https://sites.gatech.edu/ecocar/recruitment-info/

Methods and Technologies

  • Combustion Engines & Mechanical Transmissions
  • Electronic Power Converters
  • Embedded Microcontrollers
  • Camera and Radar Sensor Fusion
  • Power Management Algorithms
  • Electric Machines (motors and generators)
  • Lithium-ion Battery Packs & Battery Management Systems
  • Computer Vision
  • Feedback Control Systems
  • Short-range Wireless Communication

Majors Sought

Business: General Management

Computing: Computer Science

Engineering: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Preferred Interests and Preparation

ECE, ME, ChBE, CoC – Background/interest in hybrid-electric vehicle powertrains or vehicle autonomy, physics, statics, dynamics, circuits, electronics, wireless communication, camera/radar sensing, microcontrollers, control systems, heat transfer, computer-aided analysis/design software, Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow software.
MGMT – Background/interest in communications, marketing, public relations, social media, event planning, video production, website development, youth outreach, fund raising.

Advisors

Antonia Antoniou
Antonia Antoniou
Antonia.Antoniou@me.gatech.edu

David Taylor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
david.taylor@gatech.edu

Mike Leamy
Mechanical Engineering
michael.leamy@me.gatech.edu

Day, Time & Location

Full Team Meeting:
11:00-11:50 Thursday
Klaus 1440

Subteam meetings scheduled after classes begin.

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