Students
Are you looking participate in the ultimate educational engineering experience?
With EcoCAR, you are participating in a high-profile, hands-on project where you’re following real-world processes and working in an interdisciplinary environment. This experience fuels your resume to help you get wherever you want to go.
With a multi-disciplinary approach, students of all majors are welcome to join the EcoCAR EV Challenge.
What do AVTCs offer Students?
A key mission of AVTCs is to provide student enrichment and education through experiential learning and supplemental training. Students gain hands-on, real-world experience in the areas of engineering, business, and communications.
The EcoCAR EV Challenge offers the following to participants:
- Hands-on, project-based learning
- Partnership with seasoned industry mentors and SMEs
- Real-world Global Vehicle Development Process projects
- Access to state-of-the-art testing facilities
- Leadership and management opportunities
- 6 Graduate Research Assistant funded positions
Benefits of Competing in AVTCs
The overall vision of EcoCAR is to provide an opportunity for university students to participate in hands-on automotive R&D at the leading edge of technology by using contemporary industry standards and practices.
- Participation in a high-profile, hands-on project that mimics an automotive start up environment
- Interdisciplinary collaboration with the university that broadens your knowledge and expertise
- Unparalleled, experiential learning experience for students
- Opportunities to gain real-world leadership skills: teamwork, collaboration, and problem-solving skills; verbal and non-verbal communication; business and communications acumen
- Funded graduate and undergraduate student support and travel to workshops and competitions
- Top jobs with North America’s premier employers (EcoCAR graduates command higher starting salaries than their peers, $4K-15K/average depending upon degree)
- Access to state-of-the-art testing facilities
- Research opportunities and publications
- Experience with a real-world vehicle development process and learn industry best practices, tools, standards and methods to prepare you for future careers in the mobility industry
- Close collaboration with mobility leaders from industry and government
- Research opportunities and publications
Want to get involved?
Interested in learning more about how to get involved in EcoCAR? Fill out the form below and we can answer your questions!
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Lemont, IL 60439
