Giorgio Rizzoni is the Ford Motor Company Chair in ElectroMechanical Systems, is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. He received his B.S. (ECE) in 1980, his M.S. (ECE) in 1982, his Ph.D. (ECE) in 1986, all from the University of Michigan. Since 1999 he has been the director of the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research (CAR), an interdisciplinary university research center in the Ohio State College of Engineering. His research activities are related to modeling, control and diagnosis of advanced propulsion systems, vehicle fault diagnosis and prognosis, electrified powertrains and energy storage systems, vehicle safety and intelligence, and sustainable mobility.
The Ohio State Center for Automotive Research, CAR, is an interdisciplinary research center in the Ohio State College of Engineering founded in 1991 and located in a 60,000 ft2building complex on the west campus of Ohio State. CAR conducts interdisciplinary research in collaboration with the Ohio State colleges of Engineering, Medicine, Business, and Arts and Sciences, and with industry and government partners. CAR is also the home of the Ohio Stae Motorsport program, which supports the activities of 7 student vehicle competition programs: the Buckeye Bullet (holder of all current electric vehicle land speed records), EcoCAR hybrid-electric vehicle team, FSAE, Baja SAE, Buckeye Electric Motorcycle Racing Team, Supermileage SAE, and Underwater Robotics Team.
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Topic: The Future of Mobility
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