McGill Chem-E Car

The McGill Chem-E Car Design Team was founded in 2013. Since then, the team has substantially grown from 13 to 81 active members from varying academic disciplines. Team members put their innovative ideas and engineering skills together to produce a car completely powered and stopped by chemical reactions. Our design team incorporates aspects of electrical, mechanical, software, computer, material and chemical engineering. Every year, we design, develop and build a new car to compete with teams from universities from around the world at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) Chem-E Car competition. On November 2015, we placed 1st among 36 universities from around the world to claim the 2015-2016 World Championship title. This year, we are proud to announce that we won 1st Place at the 2019 AIChE Regionals Chem-E Car Competition in Amherst, MA held by UMass Amherst! We also placed 1st at the 2019 Chem-E Car Poster Competition! This means that our team is qualified for ...