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Birmingham team wins electronics award
The Formula Student team from Birmingham University has won the IEE award for most innovative use of electrical engineering.
The Formula Student team from Birmingham University has won the IEE award for most innovative use of electrical engineering The team was presented with a trophy made from a rear pushrod load cell from the 2002 Jaguar Racing R3 Formula 1 car in recognition of their efforts
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"For electronics engineers, The Formula Student project is the nearest we could have found at university to a real world application.
It was a new, hands-on experience and the integration with the mechanical discipline was key", said Melissa Atherton, team captain for the team from Birmingham University.
The IEE award was presented by John Saville, retired Chief Information Officer for Jaguar Racing, on 7th July 2003, as the culmination of the weekend racing competition.
Over four days, student engineering teams raced their own speed cars which they have designed and built at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and Proving Ground, near Leicester.
"The most innovative use of electronics at Formula Student is certainly Birmingham University", said John Saville.
"The microcontroller for the pneumatic shift is an elegant design and autoshifts at a programmable rpm.
I was pleased to present the IEE award and hope that it encourages future teams to recognise that electronics are a central feature to designing successful Formula Student racing cars".
This year, more than 500 students took part in university teams from as far away as the USA, Canada, India and South Africa. Request free introductory details about products from Institution of Engineering and Technology ...
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