The McMaster University EcoCAR3 team traveled to Yuma, Arizona and San Diego, California to compete in the Year 2 EcoCAR 3 Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition from May 15 to May 26. The four-year EcoCAR 3 challenge pits 16 North American university teams, composed of engineering, business and communications students, against one another to redesign a more
April 19, 2016: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne wished McMaster’s EcoCAR 3 team good luck in an upcoming competition and lauded the University’s position as a research and innovation powerhouse in a video message. Wynne sent well wishes for the upcoming Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition in Yuma, Arizona and San Diego, California on May 15 to
March 24, 2016: Monika Bialy, Ph.D student has been honoured by NSERC with the prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral Program (CGS D) award of $70,000 over 2 years. Monika was also recently featured in the McMaster Faculty of Engineering campaign, #ThinkEngineering.
On June 10, 2015 the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation awarded $4.4M to McMaster University for the project: Virtual Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrain and Integration Lab–a unique axle-mounted all-wheel drive chassis dynamometer system with vehicle-to-grid capabilities for advanced research on the next generation of vehicles with electrified powertrains. New Facilities to develop
McMaster University is proud to be one of two Canadian universities participating in EcoCAR 3; North America’s premier collegiate-level automotive engineering competition. EcoCAR 3 is the latest in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition (AVTC) series. AVTCs represent a unique collaboration of government, industry, and academic partners who combine resources to
March 6, 2014: McMaster receives a Chrysler Innovation Award at the Annual Innovation Awards Ceremony of Chrysler in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA, on March 6th, 2014 for the Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) project entitled “Next Generation Affordable Electrified Powertrains with Superior Energy Efficiency and Performance-Leadership in Automotive Powertrain (LEAP).”
Chrysler Group partners with Canadian government—McMaster University to develop advanced electric and hybrid powertrains
The team also won the First Place in the Design Competition and the First Place in Business Presentation. In addition, the team won the Third Place Chrysler Innovation Award and the Third Place Overall Hybrid.
McMaster opens 80,000 square-foot McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC) – shaping what, how we drive with new $26M auto lab Announcement Video Announcement Photos (by Ron Scheffler)
Spring edition of McMaster Times magazine features McMaster automotive research – Driving Toward the Future
MacAUTO charges ahead with EV development
Government of Canada Invests in McMaster University’s Automotive Resource Centre University researchers and the automotive industry will now come together to develop “green” automotive technologies, thanks to a new investment by the Government of Canada. The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), announced the
Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) Laureate Program
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