BANGALORE: The students of PES Institute of Technology (PESIT) have won the overall collaboration award at the Global Forum of Partners in Advanced Collaborative Engineering (PACE) held in Vancouver to design a sustainable urban transport vehicle for 2030. The winning team comprised six students. Apart from winning this award, the PESIT was also awarded the first place in ‘Market Research’, second place in ‘Project engineering’ and ‘Manufacturing phase’ and also won an award for the overall designing of a car. Seven teams competed at this prestigious event from across the world. Among the seven teams, PESIT was slotted at number three and was heading its team and each functioning/design of the car had been divided among all its members. While PESIT had chosen to design the car’s propulsion, energy and steering systems; SJCE, Mysore was in charge of the networking integration and the HVAC, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico was given charge of the suspension and braking systems. Michigan Technological University, USA, handled the electronics and the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) of the car. The National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, was in charge of the actual design of the car that included exterior body and the interiors features.PACE is a corporate initiative between GM, Autodesk, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Siemens, with contributions from companies like Altair Engineering, 3D Connexion and MSC Software, among others.
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