Electric Auto Shop

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Sinopse

Electric Auto Shop is a curriculum for teaching alternate fuel vehicle drive technology.

Episódios

  • Electric Auto Shop 130

    26/03/2015 Duração: 27min

    EAS speaks to Doug Fraser, Present Senior Research Engineer, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, and Founder and Director of Formula Hybrid competition.Engineering students across the country are losing sleep and slacking on their other subjects. So says the founder of Formula Hybrid, Doug Fraser, who came on the show to give us a preview of what to expect in this year’s competition. Formula Hybrid takes place April 27 – 30, 2015 at the new Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire.  Founded and run by the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth since 2006, Formula Hybrid takes place each spring at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. The competition is part of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Collegiate Design Series and is regarded as the most complex and dynamic of the series. Formula Hybrid, according to the website, is an interdisciplinary design and engineering challenge for undergraduate and graduate university students. They must collaboratively design and build a

  • Electric Auto Shop 123

    05/03/2014 Duração: 24min

    EAS returns from the Educating for Careers Conference in Sacramento.

  • Electric Auto Shop 122

    21/02/2014 Duração: 29min

    Talking Shop with IIT Motorsports’ Charles Currier We’re grateful to be joined on the podcast by Charles Currier from IIT Motorsports. Charles is the outspoken driver and treasurer for the student team from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He appeared on radio and TV in February with the IIT electric race car on display at the Chicago Auto Show. Charles talks about building an all-new electric race car to enter into two competitions coming up this school year as part of the Formula SAE competition. The first will be Formula Hybrid April 18 at the New Hampshire International Speedway. The second is Formula SAE Electric June 18 at Lincoln Airpark in Nebraska. Charles said the Thunder Hawk is amazingly light and powerful, weighing under 600 pounds and able to accelerate from 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds. The team is also testing new lightweight carbon fiber body materials and got a big boost from the media exposure at the auto show by meeting a new supplier. Learn more about IIT Motorsports at its website: h

  • Electric Auto Shop 121

    05/02/2014 Duração: 23min

    Thanks for tuning into our first Podcast of 2014. Mike and Alex talk about the latest progress of Electric Auto Shop. The recent introduction of a new ChassisLab AC course for students brought up a short discussion on the difference between AC and DC motors for electric cars. There is a video online that gives details about the new course curriculum. One theme that we kept coming back to was how Electric Auto Shop is inspiring students to learn about math and science, in addition to building more efficient cars. This seems to run against a trend reported in the news that the auto industry is concerned that the rate of U.S. auto sales to 18-to-34-year-old buyers declined to 11 percent in April 2012, down from 17 percent for the same age group in April 2007, before the recession, according to Southfield, Michigan-based R.L. Polk & Co. The fear is that financially pressed young people who connect online instead of in person could hold down peak auto demand by 2 million units each year. Obviously green te

  • Electric Auto Shop 120

    19/12/2013 Duração: 28min

    In this week's episode we talk to students Jake, Nick, Jesus and William at Tustin HS. They tell us about projects they're working on and share what they like most about engineering class, their roles and what's difficult. Finally, they discuss future goals and jobs they hope to pursue.Tustin High School’s T-Tech Motorsports won 2nd place overall in UC Irvine’s Energy Invitational, part of the California Challenge at the Dept. of Energy’s Solar Decathlon & Expo.Instructor Ed Hernandez describes the history of Tustin High School Engineering/Design Academy, how they started with EVs, racing and energy competition.Mr. Hernandez and his class also discuss tools and equipment and safety measures for working on EVs.Some of the current projects the class is working on include:Switch & Racer8 electric vehiclesApp for high schoolShop botHovercraftDunk tankBackpack Amp Guitar ampArticle in the Orange County Register:http://www.ocregister.com/articles/science-381363-students-world.html