4 fellows awarded in the GATE program, November 2005
The Institute of Transportation Studies along with the College of Engineering has announced the graduate research awards for the first year of the UC Davis Fuel Cell, Hydrogen, & Hybrid Vehicle (FCH2V) Center of Excellence as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) program.
As stated by the USDOE “The goal of GATE is to train a future workforce of automotive engineering professionals to overcome technology barriers preventing the development and production of cost-effective, high-efficiency vehicles for the U.S. market.” The awards were made as part of a competitive process which required the researchers to submit a detailed research plan consistent with the goals of the center.
The 2006 awards are awarded to:
• David Vernon to study hydrogen enrichment via chemical recuperation to increase efficiency and reduce emissions in engines
• Brett Williams to study light-duty hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicle adoption: early markets and vehicle-to-grid power in California
• Bryan Jungers to develop the fuel cell vehicle modeling program to evaluate scalability, dynamics and energy storage
• Matt Caldwell to study the autothermal reformation of bio-alcohol mixtures in a kW-scale reformer as a promising hydrogen production pathway
For more information on the UC-Davis GATE program, the award process, and the winning proposals, please visit http://gate.its.ucdavis.edu.
Plug-In Hybrid Center at UC Davis, December 2006