VCUarts students are collaborating with Business, Engineering, and Humanities and Sciences students to represent VCU in the 2018 international Hyperloop competition. The SpaceX-sponsored event challenges university teams to design and build the best transport pod for Elon Musk’s high-speed ground transportation system. A core team of engineering students will test their pod this July in Hawthorne, California.
In the fall, a mere two months after forming, Hyperloop at VCU advanced past the first stage of the competition, the preliminary design round. In February, the team advanced again to reach the finals this July. Hyperloop at VCU is one of only 11 U.S. teams to advance to the final round, which is preceded by a week of pretrial testing and safety checks with SpaceX staff.
VCU, making its first finals appearance, finds itself in the company of Hyperloop veterans, including the University of Michigan, Arizona State University, the University of California-Berkeley and WARR Hyperloop (Technical University of Munich), which produced the fastest pod in the previous two Hyperloop competitions.
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Image: Christopher Jones, left, Jordan Chancellor, center, and Matthew Kozak work on Hyperloop pod controls at Build, RVA. Photo courtesy of VCU College of Engineering. Credit via VCU News.
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