student-teams

For the last 8 years Project MARCH has pushed exoskeleton technology. The vision of Project MARCH is to improve the quality of life for people with paraplegia using exoskeleton technology. A team of 28 students takes on the challenge of self-balance this year. Project MARCH The simple act of walking is natural to most. Unfortunately not everybody is as lucky. In the Netherlands, 8.000 people suffer from paraplegia. Paraplegia means you have no feeling in your legs and part of your upper body, below height of injury. ...

Solar Boat Twente was founded in 2016 and has been designing, building, and optimising a very efficient solar-powered boat. We compete in the Solar Sport One Competition with the National Championship in Akkrum and the World Championship in Monaco. Last year, Solar Boat Twente had the fourth most efficient solar-powered boat in the open class of the World Championship. But how do we create such an efficient boat? A large part is the optimised electrical system. ...

Electric Superbike Twente has been an explorer of electric motorcycle racing since 2017. Our pursuit for speed was partially obstructed by the COVID-19 restrictions over the past two years. This resulted in two unfinished motorcycles with huge potentials. It is up to us, the fifth team, to extract this potential on the race track. With the knowledge gained in the previous years, during tests and on the race track, we have now set our sights on our race in Finland which starts on the 1st of July. ...

For just over ten years Green Team Twente has been competing in the Shell Eco Marathon, a competition all about efficiency. This experience resulted in the team becoming World Champions in 2019, due to the pandemic this was the last year in which the race was held. This year we are making a change: We will participate one last time in the Shell Eco Marathon while making the shift to Formula Student, a competition more aimed at speed. ...

A solar car is essentially an electric car but powered by the sun instead of the grid. Cars that Solar Team Twente has been building require a lot of electrical know how and skill to realize. One does not simply design a complete car. To get a grasp of what an electrical engineer does on a team like this a single design factor will be discussed. One that has influence on basically the complete design of the electrical system. ...

Electric Superbike Twente is a student team consisting of 15 enthusiastic people that work on building an electric superbike. The team was founded in 2017, which makes us still a very young team. This year we will build the third generation bike. The first bike, the Liion-GP, became the European Champion in the Electric Championship and of course we aim to match this result! The vision of Electric Superbike Twente is to show that electric mobility is not only sustainable but also lightning fast and spectacular. ...