College of Engineering Unit:
The Shell Eco-Marathon (SEM) is a global energy efficiency competition in which OSU’s American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) club participates. Students design, build, and operate energy-efficient vehicles and compete for the best energy efficiency result in their vehicle class and energy category.
The ASME club at OSU competes in the prototype class under battery electric and has come to this capstone team to improve upon their vehicle. The current vehicle has been worked on in previous capstone projects, resulting in updates to various components, but there is still room for improvement. The client’s biggest area of concern was the front tire axle assembly. Since they were constructed last minute, they have large areas for improvement. In addition, the front axle itself is bulky and could be an area for weight reduction. Overall, the design challenge was to improve the front tire axle system with a quantifiable reduction in the number of parts or weight, with part of the system machined using 3D printing.
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| Attachment | Size |
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 Project Poster | 778.28 KB |
| Final Report | 8.31 MB |