OSU EcoCAR 3 team wins Year One

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"I don't know what's in the water in Columbus," Al Oppenheimer said, Camaro Chief Engineer at General Motors.

In another big win, The Ohio State University’s EcoCAR 3 team took first place in the Year One national advanced vehicle technology competition after five days of presentations in Seattle over the past week.

EcoCAR 3 teams are tasked with designing, building and demonstrating eco-friendly innovative automotive technologies within the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro.

Find the official Ohio State EcoCAR 3 press release HERE. Find the full PR Newswire article HERE.

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"Ohio State EcoCAR topped 15 other teams from universities across the United States and Canada," team communications manager Trevor Thompkins said. "This is the second victory for the The Ohio State University in two years."

The team previously won the EcoCAR 2 three-year challenge to create a more efficient Chevrolet Malibu.

EcoCAR 3 is managed by Argonne National Laboratory. Many of the Ohio State team members are also current students within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

Ohio State Center for Automotive Research Director Giorgio Rizzoni said this morning he was proud to see the students walk away with another “dominating performance.”

Sponsored by the United States Department of Energy, General Motors and 30 other government and industry leaders, the EcoCAR 3 overall top award includes a trophy, $10,000 to be used toward continued development of their vehicle, as well as additional prizes attributed to other top three finishes the team accomplished in other award categories. 

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Ohio State EcoCAR finished with 937 out of 1000 points. Among other awards OSU finished first place in:

  - Control Systems

  - System Modeling and Simulation

  - Innovation Project

  - Best Trade Show

  - Project Management Stakeholder event

  - Communications

  - dSPACE Embedded Success Award

The team also garnered second place awards in fields such as:

  - Mechanical

  - Project Management

  - Outreach

  - Mathworks model based design

“Under the leadership of Prof. Shawn Midlam-Mohler, the team is already working on Year 2, in which they will demonstrate their first steps toward converting a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro to a high-performance PHEV architecture,” Rizzoni said. 

Students were on their way back to Columbus on Friday.

The second place overall winner was Virginia Tech with 895 points, third place was Waterloo with 847, fourth place was Embry Riddle with 824, the fifth place team was Penn State with 772 and the sixth place team was McMaster University.

Watch an ECE video in which EcoCAR 3 team member Andrew Huster and Rizzoni talk about the future of electric vehicles and Ohio State's role in that technology HERE

About The Ohio State University EcoCAR Team
The Ohio State University EcoCAR team is one of sixteen teams competing in the EcoCAR 3 advanced vehicle technology competition. The team is made up of around 40 students, ranging from undergraduate freshmen to Ph.D. candidates. Students on the team have a diverse variety of majors, from mechanical and electrical engineering to business and public relations.
To learn more about Ohio State’s team, please visit ecocar.osu.edu, follow us on Twitter and Instagram @OSUEcoCAR, and like Ohio State University EcoCAR 3 on Facebook.