Four years of designing, building, racing, mentoring, and more!!
As the student advisor for Illini Solar Car (ISC), the University of
Illinois’s solar electric vehicle team, I have mentored dozens of
students in battery sensing hardware, printed circuit board (PCB)
design, and vehicle architecture. Spending two summers in our off-campus
garage surrounded by electrical test equipment and miniscule circuit
components, I explored the depths of battery-pack electronics and solar
array design. Now, as an aspiring PhD researcher, I hope to draw upon
these technical project experiences along with my years of research
collaboration across both institutions to advance vehicle
electrification technologies.
During my time on the team, there were a number of memorable projects
that I worked on. Most of these relate to the high-voltage powertrain of
the vehicle. For one year, I was also a lead on the strategy and
telemetry side of the team, so I will explain visual data from that
perspective. Some technical details have been omitted to protect the
team's current vehicle architecture and competitive work.
Check out our website here: illinisolarcar.com
