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EDT Students in Best Performing Team

Written by Ms Joanne Crowther

EDT Students in Best Performing Team

Powering the Future with Zero Emission

Human Powered and Zero Emission Vehicle Intensive Programme, Barcelona, Spain

Thirteen EDT students on the BEng Mechanical & Automotive and Electrical Engineering Degree Course, joined forces to form two teams to design a human powered and zero emission vehicle as part of the Erasmus Intensive Programme Powering the Future with Zero Emissions at Terrassa, near Barcelona, Spain.

The EDT teams were part of a larger group of 46 students from universities across Europe, including Bulgaria, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Greece and Portugal. Over a two week period the students attended lectures on aerodynamics, chassis design, advanced computer simulation and modeling and were then tasked with designing a human powered vehicle with no emissions.

The winning team comprised Inayat ali, Esther Bruce, Theodoros Christoforou, Daniel Fazakas, Oliver Muddle, Panagiotis Papaioannou and Anastasija Serkova. These Mechanical & Automotive Engineering students came up with an idea which so impressed the judges that it was voted the best overall vehicle. The students designed an inventive hybrid vehicle combining electric power with human power to reduce inner city emissions.

As well as the academic and practical side of the programme, there was a full social itinerary including an evening celebrating the different food and tastes from the countries represented by the students where students shared food and drink etc from their home countries.

" It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn and contribute to a zero-emissions world and make new contacts., we had chance to see some of Spain's most famous cultural buildings, it was all something I will never forget "

Esther Bruce – Mechanical & Automotive Engineering

" This was a fantastic opportunity for the students to learn about vehicles of the future taught by experts from various institutions across Europe - and a model of collaborative working " Said Dr. Byron Mason, Lecturer in Mechanical & Automotive Engineering.

Photographs from the project can be viewed in the gallery below.

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EDT Students in Best Performing Team

Powering the Future with Zero Emission

Human Powered and Zero Emission Vehicle Intensive Programme, Barcelona, Spain

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