Nine laboratories join the HydroContest EPFL HEPIA team
© HydroContest
15 inter-disciplinary semester projects strung together to build two prototype boats that will take part in this international race.
On 30 September 2013, 30 people (students, scientists and professors) were present for the kick-off meeting of the HydroContest EPFL HEPIA team that was held at the EPFL. The goal of this international competition is to build the fastest boat possible and race against other student teams on Lake Geneva in July 2014.
At EPFL HEPIA nine laboratories are participating through 15 semester projects in relation with the optimisation of a basic kit (electric motorised optimist on foils) to build a boat that will compete against four other technology universities and schools.
The projects tackle several aspects of the boat such as tank testing of hull shapes, motor optimisation, optimisation of the energy chain, foil section simulation, structure and composite defining, sub-model integrations…
This exciting and ambitious enterprise is coordinated by the Transportation Center and is one of the interdisciplinary pilot projects run within EPFL.
The next big step will be to build our first prototype over the February 2014 holiday period, and then to fine-tune it before for the races, held mid-July 2014 on Lake Geneva close to the EPFL-UNIL campus.