I created this blog for my design class, but also to express my interest in design. I am on a project called EcoCAR: The Next Challenge sponsored by GM and the Department of Energy, with many other sponsors (official website). The competition has 16 universities involved from North America, including 3 from Canada, all to create a vehicle that is more efficient, has better emissions, while keeping consumer acceptability, using the same vehicle platform. Each team designs and builds this hybrid vehicle over a 3 year time-frame where we compete each year, this is the last year.
I am a sub-team leader for The Ohio State University (ecocar.osu.edu ) EcoCAR Team and have been on it since the beginning of the competition. The first year was the main year to design architecture of the vehicle and how it functions from performing simulations to CAD designs. This year we are doing everything we can to make the vehicle better (from performance to aesthetics), this includes making new interior for the stuff we ripped out. This is exciting because we are redoing the center console with the shifter being electronically controlled versus mechanically. This allows a lot of freedom from a design aspect, we are still in the beginning stages, but I'll be posting sketches and our process using the CAD program NX 5 Unigraphics, which is a really awesome program for pretty much anything related to 3D.
-amorgan
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