Education & Technology Transfer Activities: 2012

Missouri S&T Formula Electric Racing
 
 Status Complete                         View Final Report: PDF
 
Sequential Number ETT355
 
Identification Number 00042849
   
Matching Research Agency Current team sponsors:
  • AMAE
  • The Productivity Team, LLC
  • Post Properties
  • Gregory Construction, Inc.
Expected future sponsors:
  • Missouri S&T SDELC
  • Missouri S&T SAFB
 
Principal Investigator Ryan S. Hutcheson, PhD
Asst. Teaching Professor
Missouri University of Science and Technology
194 Toomey, 400W. 13th St.
Rolla, MO 65409
(573) 341-4086
rhutch@mst.edu
 
Student Involvement Design, construction, testing, racing and team management is performed exclusively by students at Missouri S&T.
 

Project Objective		 Missouri S&T Formula Electric Racing strives to:
  • Promote understanding of electric vehicles,
  • Implement new automotive technologies in a highly competitive environment,
  • Provide students the opportunity to apply knowledge from their coursework through practical application,
  • Design, build and competitively race an electric vehicle in Formula SAE Electric.
 

Anticipated Benefits

 The Formula Electric racing team will promote Missouri S&T’s engineering excellence by successfully competing against other top engineering universities in the US and around the world. Students on the team will have the opportunity to reinforce their classroom education through practical application of modern, and future, automotive technologies.
   

Milestones
Project Start Date: 01/01/2013
Project End Date:

05/15/2014