Engineering and Design

The HAN Eco marathon is a student event organized by the HAN University of Applied Sciences. The objective of the event is to design and produce a car that can travel the furthest distance for each gram of CO2 produced. The powertrains allowed were combustion engines and electric drivelines. The car is supposed to be designed under certain rules which exist for the safety of the drivers, spectators and the engineers making the vehicles. The teams have a limited budget of 1000 euros and all the teams are allowed one testing day at the circuit and the main event took place at the Lelystad circuit in the Netherlands. Maximizing efficiency was the objective of our team we had to have the largest distance travelled per gram of CO2 expelled. The team made the choice to use an electric driveline due to the higher efficiency of the electric motors as compared to combustion engines. The CO2 use for electric vehicles was calculated by seeing the energy consumed and then calculating ...

My internship at Skoda Auto lasted from 1 st of September 2017 to 31 st January 2018. The sharing of this experience will be limited, and I wouldn’t be sharing details as my work at Skoda was protected by a confidentiality agreement.  I interned at the Chassis Development department of Skoda Auto in Mlada Boleslav in Czech Republic. My internship project was to work with a team to develop a chassis for a future Skoda vehicle to be sold in India. This internship experience was an excellent learning experience for me and was my first work experience in such a large company. My work at Skoda auto consisted of researching customer requirements with regards to the chassis, thereafter, I worked on competitor benchmarking and looked at methods adopted by competitors to sell vehicles to the Indian customers. For my final report I worked on chassis optimization and packaging of the vehicle,specifically on the MQB chassis platform. One of the requirements for the braking ...