2022 EcoCAR EV Challenge

I am writing to you as the Chief Academic Officer at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to bring to your attention that the applications for the 2022 EcoCAR EV Challenge are due January 20, 2022. Please consider applying at this link: EcoCAR RFP Link

 

For more information please see below.

 

Interested in joining a North America Premier Collegiate Automotive Engineering Competition?

 

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, General Motors and MathWorks, and managed by Argonne National Laboratory, this four-year competition will challenge universities to engineer a next generation battery electric vehicle (BEV) that utilizes automation and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity to implement energy efficient and customer-pleasing features and meet the decarbonization needs of the automotive industry. The competition will also have a major focus on equity in mobility and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM to help foster clean energy mobility solutions and opportunities for all. This program is administrated by ASEE.

 

Selected Universities will receive: 

• Up to $50K in Seed Money 
• $10K in DEI Seed Money
• $250 – 500K in funding for Minority Serving Institutions 
• $360K in graduate and undergraduate student support
• $80K in travel support
• General Motors 2023 production vehicle and shipping to competition events
• GM North American service parts
• Extensive donation of software tools and access to proprietary data and models
• Donated components, tools, and hardware
• Industry mentors from GM, MathWorks and other industry sponsors
• Custom training on a wide range of technical, communications, project management and professional development topics

More EcoCAR Links: 

• Website – https://ecocarevchallenge.org/
• How to get started - https://ecocarevchallenge.org/getting-started-guide/
• RFP Information - https://ecocarevchallenge.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EcoCAR-EV-Challenge-RFP.pdf

 

To contact ASEE’s EcoCAR program liaison, please email Ray Phillips at r.phillips@asee.org

 

As a professor emerita and former GM automotive engineer myself, I encourage you to apply to this exciting program!

 

Warm regards,

 

Jackie

 

Jacqueline El-Sayed, Ph.D.

Chief Academic Officer

American Society for Engineering Education 

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