Eco Illini Supermileage is a student design team that competes twice a year to design and build the most efficient vehicle possible. We currently hold the school records for most efficient gasoline and battery-electric vehicle with 1137 MPG and 152 Mi/KWh resepctively. Designing, devloping, and constructing these complex supermilage vechicles requires a plethora of modern tools.
Outreach is an important aspect of our our organization, and we are continually finding new ways to continue to promote a sustainability and an efficiency-focused mindset in engineering. To pursue this, we teach students on campus how to use advanced tools and techniques in order to inspire them to design, develop, and construct more sustainable and efficent systems and impact their future careers. We also focus on exposing others on campus to the benefits of sustainable engineering through outreach events.
The tangible goal of this project will be to host a driving day with our new vehicle and the equipment we have purchased. We will invite members of the community including other SSC clubs and other vehicle teams.

Our team will have around 60 undergraduate students who will be working with these advantageous tools and helping with outreach. Beyond that, we work closely with the Mechanical Engineering department and College of Engineering for university related objectives. Our team receives funding from several university departments, as well as corporate sponsorships, including both in-kind and immediate cash donations.
The main benefactors of this project would the students, who gain experience in sustainability focused engineering. Additionally, the campus will benefit by gaining insight and opportunities to help promote sustainability.

The outreach goals of this project are to highlight what is possible in energy efficiency. We often attend events like Green Quad Day, EOH, Robot Day and others to highlight our projects. This project will produce more advanced and efficient vehicles to demonstrate potential in sustainable engineering. Additionally, with more tools to improve outreach efforts, we can enchance the demonstration experience and better promote what Eco Illini Supermilage is about. For instance, an electric high-power station mentioned in the Budget Document will allows us to showcase our vehicles outdoors in a more sustainable way when compared to a gasoline generator. We will also use this to improve our vehicles by powering equipment during outdoor vehicle testing days.
As mentioned in the project information we also plan on hosting at least 1 drive day to showcase our car to the community. It will hopefully highlight the potential of energy efficient transportation. We will also have the new equipment at the event including the new electric high-power station to reduce our dependence on generators.

Beyond Campus we will compete in two national competitions on behalf of UIUC. The first, Shell Eco Marathon, is an international efficiency competition including tens of teams from across the Americas. The other is Quebec City Supermilage, which is a similar competition but is limited to North American countries. At these competitions, we aim to demonstrate the success of student designs and to represent UIUC as a hub for sustainable engineering. With the more capabilities from using the requested tools, we can effectively produce vehicles that will place higher at these competitions, improving our school records, and further spreading the university's reputation for sustainability.