Congratulations to our 2026 Winners
- 1st Place: Real-Time State-of-Charge Estimation of Rechargeable Batteries Using In-Situ Ultrasonic Monitoring and Extended Kalman Filtering (Dilawer Ali, Fan Yang, Adan De Le Cueva Perez)
- 2nd Place: Fast Design of DAB-Based OBC: An Integrated Modeling-Assessment-Optimization Platform (Ning Wang, Chaochao Song, Yuyang Wan, Likuo Zhu)
- 3rd Place: Active Learning-Based Surrogate Modeling for Efficient Electric Vehicle Drive Converter Design (Xinyue Zhang, Yikai Hou, Jie Kong)
IN CONNECTION WITH 
This competition is to encourage communication and provide exposure for peers in the thriving transportation electrification arena, the TEC education committee will hold an Electric Vehicle Design Competition!
- Team formed by a minimum of 3 participants, with at least 1 IEEE TEC member/participant
- Participants should be advanced undergraduate or graduate students
- Aim: Examine your design concept, efficiency, innovation and impact
- Content: Light vehicle, Racing Car, Formula-E, Electric golf car, E-bike, E-scooter, E-truck, E-vessel, E-drone or E-aircraft
Prizes will be awarded:
- $1000 for Best Overall
- $500 for the Most Innovative
- $300 for the Most Implementable
It’s a chance for you to group up and start your first step to realize your idea in mind!
- Team formed by at least 3 participants, with at least 1 IEEE TEC member.
- Participants should be students or post-doctoral fellow.
- Aims: Examine their design concept, efficiency, innovation and impact.
- Content: Light vehicle, Racing car, Formula-E, Electric golf-car, E-Bike, E-scooter, E-truck,
- E-vessel, E-drone, E-aircraft, Autonomous vehicles and Unmanned vehicles.
Important dates
- Deadline for submission: April 15, 2027
- Announcement of results: June, 2027
Submission Details
- Names of the team members, full name of institutes, IEEE membership numbers, contact information, supervisor names and contact
- At least 4 page reports including the design, contribution, impact, photos, performance, and a short video
Guidelines for the submission:
- The video must first start with the title, name of the team members and institutes.
- The presentation must be in English
- Submission of 4 pages must be in English
Intellectual Property and Copyright
- In order to be eligible, the applicant should sign a form to express the consent that the video may be published by IEEE TEC and assure that the video does not contain otherwise copyrighted or confidential material.
- Use of copyrighted materials must be avoided. Proper citations/references to the materials should be included, including your own publications. It is the applicant’s responsibility to resolve any copyright issues before submission
- Consult your supervisor or project sponsor to clear any copyright/IP issues
Previous Award Winners
2025 winners
- 1st Place: Multi-Physics Design of Hairpin Winding Permanent Magnet Machine for Electric Vehicles by Wentao Zhang, Haolin Li, and Liming Liu, Southeast University
- 2nd Place: Application-Level Health Monitoring System for Traction Inverters in Electrified Transportation by Xing Wei, Zhaoxin Wang and Bo Yao, Aalborg University
- 3rd Place: An Efficient and Resilient Control Framework for Modular Solid-State Transformers in Maritime Vessels by Xiangyu Meng, Hongjian Lin and Dong Xie, Southwest Jiaotong University
2024 Winners
- 1st Prize: Building a Large-Scale Intrinsically-Safe Energy Storage System by Using Retired EV Batteries, Congjia Zhang, Tsinghua University. China
- 2nd Prize: A Simplified DAB Converter Suitable for Low Voltage and Large Current Applications, Qirui Yang, The Southwest Jiaotong University, China
- 3rd Prize: High Frequency Inverter Design for Wireless Power Transfer System, Xiangrong Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2022 winners
- 1st Prize: A Distributed Architecture and Virtual Synchronous Machine Control of Onboard Charger for the Electric Vehicle, Liu Yonghui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- 2nd Prize: A Novel Coupler with Triple D Coil Increasing Lateral Misalignment Tolerance for EV-WPT System, Zhipeng Deng, Chongqing University, China
- 3rd Prize: A Matrix Converter Based Wireless Power Transfer System for High-Speed Train, Yang Xu, Southeast University, China