TOMORROW'S ENGINEERS LEARN MODEL-BASED DESIGN

摘要

The engineers of tomorrow are getting a taste of model-based design and simulation through programs such as EcoCar: The Next Challenge, which has the support of the US Department of Energy, General Motors, The MathWorks, Freescale Semiconductor, National Instruments, and other sponsors that are lending time, money, and products to the university-level competition. The EcoCar program began in the fall of 2008 when students from 17 universities in the United States and Canada began a three-year effort to design and re-engineer a 2009 Saturn Vue to be more efficient and reduce emissions (references A and B).