Building an electric car is the new challenge for students of Mechatronics Engineering from the National Technological Institute (TEC).
The Laboratory Power Electronics course set up the challenge from this semester, so students will have to design a go kart kind of vehicle.
In addition to building it, they have the challenge of demonstrating the speed and strength in a race that will take place at the end of the semester. The one who wins the race gets a 100 score in the course.
There are 30 students from the third years divided into 5 groups. This evaluation was designed by the course’s teacher, engineer Jaime Mora.
The professor says the goal is that young people learn to design electrical power circuits to work with engines. This under the principle that Mechatronics Engineering seeks to create complex machines that facilitate the life of the human being.
Mora commented that in previous years the assignments were different.
They were required to completed individual projects, such as creating the control of an engine or a oven, a power inverter and a three-phase rectifier. This time, we decided to integrate the projects into one and create an electric vehicle, because making the proposals on paper is one thing, and making it a reality is another thing entirely,”
explained Mora.