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Georgia Tech’s Student Competition
Center is the home to eight student-
led engineering competition teams,
and a few of these teams, like the
EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, Wreck
Racing and Georgia Tech Solar
Racing, design, build and engineer
their own vehicles that they compete
with. The extensive machining
resources available at the SCC
make it a place where engineering
innovations are fostered among
hundreds of students.

The EcoCAR Mobility Challenge
The EcoCAR Mobility Challenge is the latest ergy efficiency, safety, and consumer appeal of el-Based Design, a mathematical and visual
Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition the vehicle based on the needs of our selected design approach using MATLAB and Simulink
(AVTC) headline sponsored by the U.S. Depart- target market. already widely adopted in the automotive
ment of Energy (DOE), General Motors (GM), industry. This assists teams in quickly and
and MathWorks. The Georgia Tech EcoCAR Teams will use onboard sensors and wireless cost-effectively managing projects, collabo-
team is one of 12 North American university communication from the vehicle’s surround- rating on designs and developing complex
teams participating in this four-year (2018- ing environment to improve overall operation embedded systems.
2022) competition. in the connected urban environment of the fu-
ture. The team’s vehicles will include automat- At the conclusion of the competition’s four-
Over the course of the competition, the Geor- ed functions, like acceleration and steering, year vehicle development process, the Geor-
gia Tech team will work to re-engineer a 2019 and assumes the driver remains engaged with gia Tech team will have designed and imple-
Chevrolet Blazer to incorporate advanced pro- the driving task and monitoring the environ- mented a market-ready hybrid electric vehicle
pulsion systems, electrification, and connect- ment at all times. with team-designed adaptive cruise control,
ed and automated vehicle technologies. This SAE Level 2 automation, and Vehicle-to-X con-
re-engineering effort aims to improve the en- In addition, EcoCAR teams will use Mod- nectivity.

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