SAE Update - December 2019 - 22

MEMBER BENEFITS

Earlier this year, 32 active SAE student
and young professional members ages 1834 years old submitted technical abstracts
on their choice of five topics: advanced
manufacturing; advanced materials;
advanced propulsion; automated/
autonomous and connected vehicles; or

Young winners of tech paper competition
shine at SAE conference

on-demand mobility. Twenty session
organizers reviewed 66 abstracts, of which
40 were accepted. Twenty-two
manuscripts were submitted, 17 were
accepted, and 13 were approved for
publication (including the four winning
papers). The winners were selected by

Getting personal with
Qianyu Ouyang

Getting personal with
Mehar Bade

Tech paper title: "An IMPC Based
Parking Assistance System"

Tech paper title: "Feasibility of
Multiple Piston Motion Control
Approaches in a Free Piston
Engine Generator"

Ouyang, a native of Shanghai,
China, is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of
Pennsylvania while working full-time as Product
Development Engineer at FinitronX. There, she
mainly deals with advanced powertrain control
methods and vehicle autonomy algorithm
development- specifically, collaborated vehicle
path planning and control with uncertain
environment. She started there in May 2019.
Ouyang gained an interest in science and
engineering at a young age "and was fortunate
enough to learn abundant things from my father,
who is a subject expert in mathematics," she told
Update. "I decided to pursue engineering degrees
solely out of interest in making mechanical things
and complex systems work more efficiently."
Ouyang has been involved with SAE in several
capacities, including participation on Lehigh
University's Formula SAE team while she went to
that school for her M.S. in mechanical
engineering. Her B.S. is from Tsinghua University
in China.

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December 2019

A doctoral student at West Virginia University,
Bade mainly focuses on the development and
optimization of Free Piston Engine Generators as
CHP systems at the residential level and also as
range extenders for hybrid electric vehicles. As
such, he is responsible for engine numerical
modeling, prototype testing, calibration, and
control systems development, and performance
gap identification of an experimental prototype.
Prior to joining West Virginia University, Bade
worked as a plant engineer at Sterlite
Technologies, India, and received his B.S. in
mechanical engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru
Technological University, India.
"My father was a truck driver, and that's how my
passion for engines started," Bade told Update.
"When I was a kid, I used to assist him in providing
the tools and repairing his truck. That basic interest
has developed into a strong interest today to
pursue a career in science and engineering."

UPDATE

https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2019-01-2614/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2019-01-2599/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2019-01-2614/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2019-01-2599/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2019-01-2599/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2019-01-2599/

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