The 16th National College Student Intelligent Car Race ended on August 24, and XMUT welcome home our six participating teams --four first-prize winners and two second-prize winners, including the race champion Quanxiang (omni direction)Team (of Zhong Deqing, Bai Lei, and FuU Yi) , the race second place winner Shuangche (double car) Team ( of Lin Junhong, Li Linfeng, Yu Dawei and Peng Longxiang), and all the four first prize winning teams by Fujian participants. So far, XMUT students have won 11 first prizes and 6 second prizes in this Car Race nationwide, leading the universities and institutions of the like in Fujian Province in number and level of prizes for the Race.
The National College Student Intelligent Car Race is a top-level contest of STEM challenge for intelligent cars organized by the Chinese Society of Automation commissioned by the Higher Education Department of MOE. It is a national-level STEM contest and a Teaching Quality and Reform Project supported and funded by MOE.
With a mission of cultivation, participation and exploration in pursuit of excellence, this Car Race has successfully stimulated the interest and potential of college students in research and exploration, and cultivated their ability in knowledge application, engineering implementation and innovative activation. It covers the fields of control, pattern recognition, censoring, automotive electronics, electrics, computer, machinery, energy and the like, effectively promoting the intellectual and experiential sides of learning on college students.
So far, the number of participating students has exceeded 350,000. The competition involves vehicle design, manufacturing, debugging, and on-site race. Participating students form teams to work together and experience the complete process from design to realization of an engineering R&D project. The 2021 final had eight race team items and three innovation team items, attracting 2,916 teams to compete in eight divisions, and bringing 435 winning teams from 211 universities and colleges nationwide into the finals. (School of Electrical Engineering & Automation)
