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Ware Lab will be getting a similar charging station as well. Stay tuned for more on this!

  • January 3, 2013 - Ware Lab Stipends for 2012-13 Academic Year! Thanks to support from the College of Engineering’s Deans office and a private Ware Lab contributor, the following teams received stipends for the 2012-2013 academic year…
    Autonomous Arial Vehicle $700.00
    Autonomous Underwater Vehicle $1,000.00
    BAJA SAE $3,000.00
    Battery Operated Land Transport $1,200.00
    Design Build Fly $1,000.00
    Formula SAE $3,000.00
    Hybrid Electric Vehicle $3,000.00
    Human Powered Sub $1,200.00
    Human Powered Vehicle $400.00
    Impact $450.00
    Lunabotics $450.00
    SAE Aero Design - East $400.00
    SAE Aero Design - West $400.00
    AISC/ASCE Steel Bridge $1000
    NASA University Student Launch Initiative $400

These funds, totaling $17,600, go to team material/equipment costs and travel to competitions throughout the United States and the world!

  • October 9, 2012 – FORD Motor Company holds its annual recruitment drive at Ware Lab and demonstrates four of its new models!
 

          

 
 
  • May 15, 2012 – Virginia Tech Lunabotics Team, consisting of aerospace, mechanical and mining engineering students practice prior to national competition in May at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida. Robot Demonstration
  • May 12, 2012 – VT FSAE travels to Michigan earning top rankings at the SAE international competition. Out of over 130 teams the Virginia Tech team earns…
    • Acceleration:  12th overall
    • Skidpad:  7th overall
    • Sales: 18th overall
    • AutoCross: 23rd overall
  • May 5, 2012 – BAJA, BOLT and HEVT participate in Wheels and Wagons event at 1st and Main Shopping Center in Blacksburg, Virginia.

  • May 1, 2012 – Ware Family visit lab facility. Pictured below from left to right are Dewey Spangler, lab manager, Jenna Ware, Delaree Ware, Joe Ware III, John Ware and Joe Ware IV. The Ware’s were in Blacksburg for the funeral of Mr. Joe Ware, Jr. who was instrumental in providing necessary start-up funds for the establishment of the Ware facility here at Virginia Tech. Mr. Ware was 95 at the time of his passing and lived in Oxnard, California. More on Mr. Ware may be found at http://www.eng.vt.edu/warelab/about_joe_ware

  • April 29,2012 – Richmond Times-Dispatch – Ware Lab featured in “Hokies plentiful in NASCAR” (article link)
  • April 20, 2012 – Engineers from Ford Motor Company spend the day at Ware Lab demonstrating their state-of-the-art ergonomics vehicle simulator. (Additional photos link)

  • April 19, 20 and 21, 2012 – Virginia Tech BAJA SAE earns 16th place at Nationals in Alabama out of over 80 teams competing

  • April 18, 2012 – Nine Ware Lab teams from aerospace/ocean, electrical/computer, and mechanical engineering participate in the Virginia Tech Roanoke Technology Expo at the Roanoke Civic Center. Testing for the Battery Operated Land Transport (BOLT) pictured far right may be found at…video link

  • August 2011 - Ware Lab adds a Canon iPF 710 color plotter for use by Ware Lab teams for presentation posters and graphics

  • December 1, 2011 – New display window for Ware Lab showroom is completed facing the heavily used Stanger Street bus stop. This full sized display will feature Ware Lab competition vehicles and structures under track lighting along with accompanying team video on a wall mounted plasma screen TV!

  • November 18, 2011 – Jeff Rybak and Drew Steele with PCB discuss multi axis load cell measurement equipment and techniques with BAJA SAE and Formula SAE teams.

  • November 10, 2011 – Human Powered Sub (HPS) team continues work on Phantom 6, Virginia Tech’s first two person sub!

  • October 26, 2011 – Jonathan Kolodner and Alex Baddock with Amtek Inc. conduct an all-day seminar for Ware Lab teams demonstrating latest in Creaform hand-help laser scanning technology and VersaLASER® cutting tools:

  • October 12, 2011 - Justin Plotkin with FARO, Inc. conducts a 3D scanning and real-time measurement workshop for BAJA SAE, Formula SAE, and AUVT, and HEVT students.

  • October 1, 2011 - Ware Lab adds two new trophy cases in front of Room 103 to display team competition awards and trophies. These include 1st and 2nd  place trophies won by HEVT for EcoCAR competition for 2010 and 2011 respectively!

  • September 29, 2011 - Herb Roy with Vishay Micro-Measurements conducts a strain-gage installation and use workshop for BAJA SAE, FSAE, and CEE students.

  • September 29, 2011 – Ford Motor Company holds a recruitment drive for ME, ECE, and ISE students in Ware Lab showroom.

  • September 30, 2011 – John Helfen, Chris Hall, and Nabil Sater with AutoDesk discuss Inventor 2012, Showcase and, CFDesign to BAJA and FSAE team members.

  • Virginia Tech Students from VT AISC Steel Bridge attend SteelDay in Washington D.C.

Brett Keys (left) and Preston Pionk (right) with Mr. Victor Mendez, Chief Administrator of FHWA during AISC Pre-SteelDay.

WASHINGTON, DC., Sept. 22, 23, 2011 –  As concerns over the nation’s bridge infrastructure make daily headlines, students from the Virginia Tech AISC Steel Bridge team traveled to our nation’s capital last week to demonstrate the latest innovations in lightweight, accelerated bridge construction. Brett Keys and Preston Pionk, Virginia Tech CEE student team leaders for the AISC (American Institute of Steel Construction) Steel Bridge project, traveled to Washington DC to participate in the AISC’s Steel Day. Day one of the event, Pre-SteelDay, was held at the US Department of Transportation’s new headquarters in downtown DC. In attendance was the chief administrator for the FHWA, Victor Mendez, along with students and faculty from the Howard University steel bridge team. In the department’s large central atrium Virginia Tech and Howard University team members assembled their entire 20 foot long bridges from pre-assembled three foot segments with Mr. Mendez lending a hand at times! Also in attendance were DOT/FHWA and AISC officials and employees. Day two, SteelDay, involved travel to a local iron worker training facility in McClean, Virginia where the VT team constructed their bridge again and spoke with iron works, steel fabricators, and structural engineers and attended workshops and lectures on proper steel handling.

SteelDay, sponsored by AISC and the NSBA (National Steel Bridge Alliance) is the largest educational and networking event in the US steel industry and takes place throughout the country each September. Over 9000 architects, engineers, contractors, and iron workers take time out of busy schedules to participate in 180 registered events by visiting a structural steel related facility.  The Virginia Tech AISC Steel Bridge team, housed at the Joseph F. Ware, Jr. Advanced Engineering Lab on the main campus, participates in regional and international competitions each year. Team entries are judged on strength, stiffness, economy, construction speed, and aesthetics. Team members are mainly from the Via Department of civil and environmental engineering but students from other engineering majors participate as well. The current competition bridge is on display in the Steel Bridge project bay during the Ware Lab’s operating hours.

  • June 2011: VT HEVT takes in first place overall at year 3 of EcoCAR!! The team also brought home awards for several events:
    • Best Vehicle Testing Complete Presentation
    • Runner up, Lowest Tailpipe Emissions
    • Lowest Fuel Consumption
    • Runner up, Lowest Petroleum Energy Use
    • Shortest Braking Distance
    • Fastest Autocross ‘Fun Run’ Time (fun run means the students drove instead of GM drivers. Patrick actually beat the GM driver)
    • Tied for Best AVL Drive Quality
    • Best Dynamic Consumer Acceptability
    • Nation Instruments Most Innovative Use of Graphical System Design Award
    • 2nd place, Battery Worksmanship Award
    • Women in Engineering Rookie of the Year Award (Kat Pecinovski)
    • Best Outreach Presenter (Rachel Dobroth)
    • Best Progress Reports

Additional information on the event can be found at:

www.ecocarchallenge.org

http://www.greengarageblog.org

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doeavtc/

 

  • June 2011: HEVT at GM's proving grounds in Milford, MI - update letter from HEVT Leader Lynn Gantt.

As a Sponsor, Supporter, Friend, Organizer, and/or Supplier for the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team of Virginia Tech I would like to thank you for your help as the team wraps up the final stage of EcoCAR: the NeXt challenge www.ecocarchallenge.org in Washington DC.  Tomorrow night is our final awards ceremony to be held at the Library of Congress which we hope to represent Virginia Tech well at.  EcoCAR organizers are posting information regularly on the Green Garage website, http://www.greengarageblog.org/ so check out the site for more information on how the competition is progressing.  Photos can be seen on the flicker site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/doeavtc/) including photos of Secretary of Energy Chu and I this morning.

The competition vehicle, a Chevy EcoCAR nicknamed the VTREX (Virginia Tech Range Extended Crossover), did very well at GM’s proving grounds in Milford, MI over the past week.  We were one of 6 teams to complete all of the dynamic events, which is something we are very proud of.  The vehicle had a 0-60 mph time 6.68 s and 3.12 s 50-70 mph passing acceleration.  Both of these times were much faster than the stock vehicle, but just slower than the Mississippi State vehicle.  We have the shortest braking distance from 60-0 mph in 40.2 m which is 3 m shorter than the stock Vue XE as tested on the track.  The results have not been released to the team but the feedback from the GM engineers running the drive quality tests were nothing but praise.  The vehicle did well in the autocross event, with co-team leader Patrick Walsh posting a student driver best time, beating the GM drivers time for a second year in a row.  Based on fuel economy and electrical consumption data we collected we estimate a utility factor weighted fuel economy of 82 mpgge, which came from having a 54 mile EV only range.  The vehicle completed all of the desired idle starts using the belted alternator starter (BAS) motor during the 100 mile drive with no problems.  The consumer acceptable features like the pedestrian alert system, rear view camera system, and custom driver display were a big hit at the static consumer acceptability presentation. As we learn more about awards and final overall placement I will let you all know how the team does.

Thank you for your support of the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team of Virginia Tech during the EcoCAR competition.  I would encourage you all to consider assisting the team in the future as we take on our next project, re-engineering a Chevy Malibu for EcoCAR2: plugging in to the future http://www.ecocar2.org/ along with 15 other universities.  We will again need the support of suppliers to ensure the quality of the EcoCAR2 vehicle exceeds the VTREX, which will be hard to achieve. As always you can follow the team at www.me.vt.edu/hevt which will direct you to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other competition sites.  I will be starting work at General Motors with a few other team members this summer, and will be replaced as team leader by Jesse Alley (jalley24@vt.edu or hevt@vt.edu).  Please send all emails regarding support of the team for EcoCAR2 his way.

Thanks!      

Lynn R. Gantt

Team Leader HEVT

  • April 2011: BAJA SAE Team completes competition in Alabama after dodging tornados with 3rd place in the Dynamic Events, 6th overall in design, and 9th overall for the competition out of over 50 participants! Way to go BAJA!

  • April, 2010: Human Powered Aircraft continue to work on full scale horizontal and vertical airfoils for their upcoming competition. The finished aircraft will have a total wing span of 60 feet!

  • April, 2010: Blind Driver Challenge team members give a new team member orientation to current sensing technology used on the semi-autonomous vehicle.

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