Category Archives: Honors & Awards

UT Austin selected into the Prestigious EcoCAR EV Challenge Program

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U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced UT Austin as a new team of the EcoCAR EV Challenge sponsored by Department of Energy, General Motors, MathWorks and managed by Argonne National Laboratory. EcoCAR is a premier collegiate engineering program of Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions (AVTC) for North American universities. Led by Profs. Junmin Wang (Mechanical Engineering), Joydeep Biswas (Computer Science), and Alex Huang (Electrical Engineering), 100+ undergraduate and graduate students in many disciplines across the UT campus will work on addressing real-world challenges of electrified, connected, and automated vehicles (E-CAV) through multidisciplinary collaborations using GM’s full-electric 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ as the test platform. More details at UT Austin Cockrell School of Engineering and U.S. DOE. A YouTube video on EcoCAR EV Challenge is here.

Zejiang’s work received 2020 Automotive Systems Best Paper Award from ASME

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MSL’s paper “Real-Time Driver Model Parameter Identification: An Algebraic Approach” authored by Zejiang and Prof. Wang received the 2020 Automotive and Transportation Systems Best Paper Award at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2020 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. Congratulations!

Selection of this ATS best paper award was made by a committee of 11 experts in the field of automotive and transportation systems.

Scott Schnelle’s work received 2018 IEEE Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award

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The paper “A Personalizable Driver Steering Model Capable of Predicting Driver Behaviors in Vehicle Collision Avoidance Maneuvers,” published at IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Volume 47, No. 5, pp.  625-635, October 2017 by Prof. Wang’s former Ph.D. student Scott Schnelle, Prof. Wang, and collaborators Prof. Su and Prof. Jagacinski received the 2018 IEEE Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award – IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

Congratulations!