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CSUN Engineer Wins Fulbright Scholarship for Vietnam Research
(NORTHRIDGE, Calif., May 2, 2007) — But for his overwhelming desire to make a difference in the world, Cal State Northridge assistant mechanical engineering professor Nhut Ho might have found contentment amid the oil and fumes of an auto garage in his native Vietnam.
"Had I stayed in Vietnam, I probably would not have gone to college," said the hard-driving young director of CSUN’s Ernie Schaeffer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. "I’d be a car mechanic; I’d be fixing your car."
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Intelligent Ground Vehicle team competition
ME autonomous robot vehicle, LinBot, entered the 15th IGVC competition in June 2007, and won 5th place among the 37 teams in the Design Challenge category. The team received a $500 cash award. The team was supervised by Prof. C.T. Lin. The CSUN robot was the only one from California that made it to the competition this year.
Formula SAE competition:
The 2007 CSUN Formula SAE team placed 7th overall at the Formula SAE West competition. This is the highest the FSAE team has ever been ranked in this prestigious competition. The team was advised by Prof. Stewart Prince and the manager was Mr. Pablo Olmedo. The car was very fast and did exceptionally well in all of the dynamic events including an overall win in the skid pad event. The ranking for the various events are as follows:
Acceleration - 3rd place
Auto-X - 7th place
Skid-Pad - 1st place
Endurance - 9th place