The team of students of the Degree in Chemical Engineering of Universidad de Cantabria participated in the Chem-E-Car competition that took place on 1st October within the World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Barcelona from 1st to 5th October, 2017.
The success of the Cantabrian expedition was acknowledged with the award to the “Best Inherent Safety in Design of Car”), which reveals the excellent work carried out by the team of students.
18 teams from different countries, like Canada, Iran, Qatar, Poland, United States or Spain, were able to finally take part in the competition. The car “CantabriCar” of UC achieved the best place among the Spanish teams that participated in the event, and the sixth place in the global ranking of the competition. The winner of the contest was the prototype of the team from the Persian Gulf University (Iran), which was able to place the vehicle only 0,6 cm away from the target distance of 21 m, showing the extraordinarily high level of the participants.
The team has been supervised by a groups of professors from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and it has been financially supported by the company Birla Carbon Spain, which made the dream of taking part in this competition a reality.
