Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT)

Engineering Manager, EcoCAR 3 Competition, August 2017 - December 2017

Skills: Project Management, Hybrid Vehicle Architecture, MS Project

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For my first semester of graduate school at Penn State, I received a research assistantship ​to serve as the engineering manger of the PSU advanced vehicle team. The position required the management of a 30 student senior design class who's goal is was to transform a 2016 Chevy Camaro from stock to a hybrid vehicle. As this was the fourth and final year of the project, many decisions had already been put in place. The stock V6 engine was replaced with a 4-cylinder, direct injection, turbocharged model. An electric motor was installed ahead of the transmission making the architecture a P1 model. 

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My responsibilities included drafting tasks for the semester, deciding order of importance, and distributing tasks to one of 5 student teams (Powertrain, Chassis, Electrical, Controls, or Driver Assistance). Simultaneously, students had to be trained and informed about the project, distributed into their working teams, and leaders for each team had to be chosen. Once this was completed, my tasks included holding Gantt chart meetings with each team to discuss progress, advising and approving student designs, and assisting students with completing physical work on the car. Due to a failure in the previous year, this included dropping and reinstalling the powertrain with-in the semester.  

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