Wednesday, May 7, 2014
A
smarter,
more
intuitive
car?
That's
what three
electrical
and
computer
engineering
doctoral
candidates are
competing
to
design
in the
Valeo
Innovation
Challenge, a
global
contest
open
to
engineering
students
around
the
world
to
create
a
product
or
system
that
will produce
better cars
by
2030.
The
team
of
Hassan
Omar,
Sailesh
Bharati,
and
Ning
Lu,
known
as The
Three
VeMAColleagues, is
one
of
only
20
out
of 969
from
455 universities
around
the
world to
advance
to
the prototyping
phase
of the challenge.
The students
are
members
of
the
Broadband
Communications
Research Group are
supervised
by
electrical
and
computer
engineering
professors
Weihua
Zhuang
and
Xuemin
(Sherman)
Shen.
The
challenge
was
launched
in
September
2013
by
Valeo,
an
independent
industrial
group focused
on
the
design,
production
and
sale
of
components,
integrated
systems
and
modules
for
the
automotive
industry,
mainly
for
CO2
emissions
reduction. Out
of
the
20
teams,
six will be
selected
to
present
their
project
to
the
jury
at
the Paris
Motor
Show
in
October
2014.
The
winning
team
will
receive
a
€100,000
prize
and
the
second
and
third-place
teams
will
each
receive
€10,000.