College
College of Engineering and Polymer Science
Date of Last Revision
2025-05-29 07:41:42
Major
Electrical Engineering
Honors Course
ELEN 401 & 402
Number of Credits
5
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Date of Expected Graduation
Spring 2025
Abstract
Zips Racing Electric is a design team at the university that builds and races electric cars. The racing team wants to design a four-wheel drive system to increase performance, but the current computer on the vehicle cannot control the more complex power train. The goal of the project will be to build a hardware device that can read sensor inputs and control the torque output to each motor individually. The control device being designed will need to interface with the existing systems on the car and control regenerative breaking, torque vectoring, and other auxilliary systems on the car.
Research Sponsor
Dr. Michael Lichter
First Reader
Dr. Michael Lichter
Second Reader
Dr. Farhina Haque
Honors Faculty Advisor
Dr. De Abreu-Garcia
Proprietary and/or Confidential Information
No
Recommended Citation
Stoller, Ryan; Glen, Brian; Wozencraft, John; and Engdahl, Tetra, "Zips Racing Electric - Vehicle Control Unit" (2025). Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects. 2041.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/honors_research_projects/2041
Comments
The proposal was written for and approved by the ECE dept. in the spring. This semester (Fall 2024), a fourth member was added to the group. Although they did not help write the original proposal, they will be working on the project from here on out.
The ECE dept. has a different schedule, so I have attached the ECE Senior Design Project Syllabus for this semester.