The scores are in and have been tallied!  After a grueling year and a half of development, culminating at the Year 2 Winter Workshop  in Daytona Beach, FL, we are proud to announce the winners of the award for best Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) design – a rapid control system testing technology that helps take the team’s vehicle designs from concept to reality.

The winners for best HIL design are:

• 1st Place: Ohio State University
• 2nd Place: Virginia Tech
• 3rd Place: Mississippi State University

All the submissions were very impressive and the judging process was not easy. The HIL designs are central to the EcoCAR Challenge and each team’s success. Congratulations to the winners and all the outstanding work in the competition so far!

The winners for Web site design are:

• 1st Place: Mississippi State University
• 2nd Place: University of Waterloo
• 3rd Place: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

See you at the Year Two Finals!