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SEPTEMBER 2017
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Chasing 400: This history of the Buckeye Bullet
The quest for a landspeed record started with a request. In 1993, Department of Mechanical Engineering Chair Larry Kennedy asked then Assistant Professor Giorgio Rizzoni, to advise a new electric vehicle student racing team. This week, a 20-member student team is preparingand hopingto propel the Venturi Buckeye Bullet 3 to reach 400mph and beat their own record for the fastest electric vehicle in the world.
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Student Spotlight on Bailey Burdue As car manufacturers work to meet environmental standards, they require the newest and best research. Bailey Burdue, a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Environmental Engineering, is doing her part to learn the techniques required for effective research.
Burdue chose to study environmental engineering when she was in high school, and it has since seemed like a perfect fit for her. I wanted to combine engineering and nature, she said. I have always enjoyed math as well as understanding natural processes and what I can do to alter our footprint on the world. Read more>> |
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PI Spotlight on Emre Koksal, PhD Emre Koksal, PhD, has teamed up with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) to increase the accuracy and security of wireless vehicular communication.
Koksal came to The Ohio State University as an assistant professor in 2006, and he has been an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) since 2013. Prior to coming to Ohio State, he obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and his S.M. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At CAR, his work focuses on vehicular communication and cybersecurity. Read more>> |
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Membership Project Update
Quantification of Tailpipe Emissions during Engine Restarts from Vehicles with Idle-Reduction Technologies Andrew May, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering serves as PI for the project Quantification of Tailpipe Emissions during Engine Restarts from Vehicles with Idle-Reduction Technologies. With an increase in demand for reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, more vehicles have incorporated idle-reduction technologies like engines that turn off when the vehicle comes to a complete stop. May and his team are studying the tailpipe emissions that occur once the engine restarts and the significance of repeated starting and stopping throughout a real-world trip as well as throughout the vehicles lifetime.
By measuring the amount of gases emitted from restarting the engine and then creating simulations from these measurements, May has built models for a single vehicles emissions throughout its lifetime and also for a larger set of vehicles stopped at a red light. Preliminary results show that idle-reduction technology reduces the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by a single car by tenfold over its lifetime, and it also reduces carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and methane (CH4) emissions, showing that reducing fuel consumption does not add to tailpipe emissions of other air pollutants. The current model for multiple vehicles relates the percentage of vehicles with idle-reduction technology in an area to the percent reduction of air pollutants. As the percentage of idle-reduction vehicles increases, so does the percent of reduction. Learn more>>
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