Jointly organized by Chinese Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Second Global Grand Challenges Summit finished its competition day for students on Sept 10th in Beijing, China. 15 competing teams are from China, America and Britain. SJTU team won the second prize for its "MSFW-based Distributed Power Generation, Power Processing and Storage System".
Jiajun Cao, a student from School of Mechanical Engineering, spend 6 years together with his team in this project. He started scientific innovation during secondary school studies. As a student of SJTU Affiliated Secondary School pilot class, he participated in the 26th China Adolescents Science & Technology Innovation Contest and won the first prize. Per his discussion and communication with professors and other contestants, he was attracted by MSFW battery. The battery is able to transform electric energy into kinetic energy. High sensitive to technology, Jiajun began to apply motor to MSFW.
One year later, Jiajun entered SJTU School of Mechanical Engineering pilot class. With advanced innovation platform and equipments provided by the School, Jiajun decided to deepen his research on MSFW motor. After numerous repeated experiment, his NO.2 motor realized the expected functions and won first prize at the Sixth National University Student Social Practice and Science Contest on Energy Saving & Emission Reduction.
Jiajun's team stood out from other teams in selective trials of Global Grand Challenges Summit in June of 2015. Jiajun, Jingcheng Ma and Qian Yang from School of Mechanical Engineering; Yu Shang, Yuan Fu from School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering; Xiao Zhang from School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering joined hands and finished NO.4 sample motor during summer vacation. They successfully notched silver after the motor's onsite presentation.
When asked about his vision about MSFW flywheel, Jiajun said that he hoped to build an engineering sample and keep improving upon specific demands, and eventually realize it engineering applications.
SOURCE / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
