Europe's first MCU Car Rally for students

3rd February 2015

Renesas

Nat Bowers

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At embedded world 2015, Renesas Electronics Europe will announce the final of its MCU Car Rally competition for university students. Almost 100 students across 17 teams from universities and technical colleges all over Europe have spent the past year developing a functioning model racing car based on electronic components and software from Renesas, competing for prizes including racing experiences, tablets and cash vouchers.

The competition gives final-year engineering students a great opportunity to develop a real-world 'product' using state-of the-art solutions from Renesas, including the popular RX 32-bit MCU. In terms of technical support and coordination for the MCU Car Rally competition, Renesas has been assisted by its UK-based Platinum Alliance Partner, AND Technology Research.

For many of the participating teams, the Renesas MCU Car Rally has become a highlight in their year with institutions consider the students’ work on the Renesas rally cars as bona fide coursework, where professors award the students points for the completed project that count towards their degree.

Renesas is a Platinum Sponsor of the Student Day, held on the last day of embedded world and attracting over 1,000 students every year. The company will hold practice runs, heats and finals for the competition on the Student Day.

Andy Harding, Senior Manager, Industrial & Communications Business Unit, Renesas, comments: “Students love a challenge - and the MCU Car Rally competition will help them develop their mechatronics knowledge and programming skills while working as a team. It also gives us the opportunity to meet some of tomorrow’s top engineering talent in Europe. The competition is great fun too, so it’s a win-win situation for everyone involved.”