Korea Automobile Engineering Association (President Hwang Seong-ho, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University), a nonprofit academic institution representing automotive engineering in Korea, said on the 16th that it will hold the "2025 university student smart e-mobility competition" for three days from the 24th at the E-Mobility Research Center of the Korea Automotive Research Institute in Yeonggwang County, Jeollanam-do.
The "2025 university student smart e-mobility competition," jointly hosted by the Korea Automobile Engineering Association, the Korea Automotive Research Institute, Jeollanam-do and Yeonggwang County, is a contest in which university students compete with cars they built themselves. It has been held since 2019 to give students the opportunity to acquire electric vehicle design and manufacturing skills firsthand and to train experts for the future automotive industry.
Following the homemade car competition held last month, this university student e-mobility competition will take place on-road, and about 1,500 university students from 55 teams representing 44 universities nationwide are expected to participate. After rounds of acceleration performance, slalom, driving performance and endurance racing, the team with the highest score will receive the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award.
The team that wins the gold prize in the overall standings will receive the Jeonnam provincial governor's award, and the "KATECH technology award" will be given to teams that demonstrate excellent vehicle technology. The "Altair optimal design award," which evaluates how various analysis techniques were applied and reflected in actual vehicle design, and the "technical sector," which evaluates automotive technical ideas and design, will also be selected.
Founded in 1978, the Korea Automobile Engineering Association currently has about 49,500 individual members and about 770 corporate and institutional members, including five completed vehicle manufacturers, corporations, research institutes and libraries, and publishes about 230 automotive papers annually through SCIE-indexed IJAT and SCOPUS-indexed Korean journals. It also contributes to the development of Korea's automotive engineering and industry by attracting and hosting international academic conferences, automotive technology exhibitions, automotive-related technical education, automotive standardization, the university student homemade car competition and the university student smart e-mobility competition.
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