School of Mechanical Engineering automobile production club 'YUSAE'
Wins 'Best Paper Award' in international conference on electric automobiles
Equipped with 'theory, practical and experience' such as winning the top overall in an international car production competition
[April 8, 2016]
<Automobile production club YUSAE students and advisor Hwang Pyeong who won the best paper award in the 1st International Conference on Electric Vehicle, Smart Grid and Information Technology>
(from left to right: Lee Soon-gi, Yeom Seung-jae, Lee Yoon-hwa, Professor Hwang Pyeong)
YU students won the best paper award at the '1st ICESI (International Conference on Electric Vehicle, Smart Grid, and Information Technology'.
The winners were Lee Soon-gi (24, senior) Yeom Seung-jae (22, junior), and Lee Yoon-hwa (21, senior) of the School of Mechanical Engineering who are also part of the YU automobile production club, 'YUSAE'. Their paper on the 'Student Design of Electric Vehicle for 2015 Baja SAE Korea Competition' was selected as the best paper and received the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award.
Lee Yoon-hwa, who was the first author of this paper, said, "The paper dealt with the structure of vehicles, design of decelerators, system design for motor control and cooling, and the dynamic analysis of vehicles. I had participated in the electric car sector in an international college student automobile production by designing and producing a small off-road electric vehicle. We had good results then too." She added, "I think we received good marks for our deceleration design to improve the hill angle rise, which is a weakness of electric cars, as well as our attempts in designing the motor for torque distribution and our efforts to optimize suspension (device that absorbs impact from the road so that it is not delivered to the chassis or passenger."
The 'YUSAE' club has continuously participated in international automobile production contests in the past several years, and took the grand prize and second place awards, and is therefore judged to have both theoretical and practical expertise. In particular, they have been making great achievements by using experiences they accumulated by designing and driving their vehicles through numerous automobile production contests, and have been using such experiences to improve automobile performance.
School of Mechanical Engineering Professor Hwang Pyeong, who advised these students, said, "The students received good evaluations by writing the paper based on their experience in designing and producing a small one-person off-road electric vehicle." He added, "I believe that this paper will contribute in the design of similar leisure vehicles, farming vehicles, and short-distance electric automobiles, and I also have high anticipations that it will be a basic model for self-driven cars in the future."
Lee Soon-gi, who is the president of the YUSAE club, said, "We have been receiving a lot of advice from our advisor to carry out follow-up research to improve the performance of electric vehicles," and explained their future research plans by adding, "We will make various attempts such as in motor control technologies to increase torque and improve hill climbing abilities, changes to the structural design to reduce the weight of the vehicle, and to design the chassis in a way that it improves vehicle durability."
Meanwhile, the awards ceremony for the winners of this international conference was held at the 3rd International Electric Vehicle Expo closing ceremony that closed its curtains at the Jeju International Convention Center on the 24th.
