UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
About
UC Riverside (UCR) is one of two schools from California competing in the USDOE’s Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions. UCR is geographically located in Inland Southern California. Many of our team leads and faculty conduct their research at the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), the largest research center at UCR and a leader in transportation, energy, and air quality.
EcoCAR EV Challenge is the third Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition that UC Riverside, and CE-CERT in particular, has participated in, with previous competitions including the Propane Vehicle Challenge and the Ethanol Vehicle Challenge.
Goals
- Our main goal for year 3 is to strategize on more efficient ways to work together as a multidisciplinary team.
- Our second goal is for our team to meet all project milestones on time and within the yearly budget. We aim to ensure role clarity and effective cross-functional integration for overall team development.
- Our third goal is to produce a vehicle to industry-level standards that can compete in vehicle dynamic testing during the year-end competition—integrating all necessary components complying to safety and organizer rules.
Dr. Matthew Barth
Lead Faculty Advisor
University of California, Riverside Team
Dr. Guoyuan Wu
Lead CAVs Faculty Advisor
University of California, Riverside Team
Logan Dang
Project Manager
University of California, Riverside Team
Angelia Tran
Communications Manager
University of California, Riverside Team
Jade Le
Mobility Lead
University of California, Riverside Team
Ashley Trevino
Mechanical Lead
University of California, Riverside Team
Will Snyder
Electrical Technical Specialist
University of California, Riverside Team
Nilesh Ram Balusu
PCM Lead
University of California, Riverside Team
Emmanuel Hidalgo Gonzalez
PCM Advisor
University of California, Riverside Team
Xuanpeng Zhao
CAV Lead
University of California, Riverside Team
Mike Stas
CAV Lead Advisor
University of California, Riverside Team
Get Involved
- Positions available on the team: We are looking for students of all levels and experiences, from engineering seniors looking to start their senior design projects, to journalism and film majors for the communications team.
- The Project Management Subteam defines organizational processes, creates project plans, provides project oversight, and asserts authority to monitor & control the execution of project tasks.
- Lead: Logan Dang
- The Communications Management Subteam oversees communications and outreach activities for each individual EcoCAR Team. The Communications Manager (CM) leads all group activities for this Sub Team.
- Lead: Angel Tran
- Mobility Challenge (MC) Subteam: is focused on mobility, infrastructure, and passenger vehicle design issues affecting local community groups and is developing community-engaged and user-centered projects to address them.
- Lead: Jade Le
- The Propulsion Controls and Modeling (PCM) Subteam is responsible for designing and developing the propulsion controls for their electric vehicle. The controls development process involves using software development and modeling techniques to design a system that is optimized for performance and energy efficiency.
- Lead: Nilesh Ram Balusu and Emmanuel Hidalgo Gonzalez
- The Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Subteam consists of a multidisciplinary group of students leading the development of the connected and automated driving features. The features will include connected adaptive cruise control, automatic lane centering, traversing connected corridors, and optimizing vehicle controls for energy efficiency.
- Lead: Mike Stas and Xuanpeng Zhao
- The System Design and Integration (SDI) Team designs, integrates, evaluates, and refines all vehicle systems and components, including Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV), Propulsion Controls and Modeling (PCM), electrical, thermal, and mechanical, to ensure the vehicle safely functions as designed
- Lead: Ashley Trevino and WIll Snyder
- The Project Management Subteam defines organizational processes, creates project plans, provides project oversight, and asserts authority to monitor & control the execution of project tasks.
- Ways to get involved:
- Sign up for our emailing list and engage with us on our socials @ecocar.ucr for the latest updates
- Sign up for an ME or EE senior design project under one of our faculty advisors
- Contact any of the team leads (they may be your TA) and get assigned your first tasks and projects
- Locations for meetings:
- The UCR EcoCAR team regularly meets at the off-campus Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT): 1084 Columbia Avenue, Riverside, CA 92507, USA.
- Times/dates for team meetings:
- Our Fall meetings are on Wednesday from 4 PM – 5 PM at CE-CERT.
- We will update this every quarter and add more sub-team meeting times.
- Ways to get involved:
Contact Information:
Address
1084 Columbia Avenue, Riverside, CA 92507
General contact: ecocar@ucr.edu
- Project Manager: Logan Dang
- Communications Manager: Angelia Tran
