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Professor of the Practice Ken Pence’s project management graduate class last year succeeded in building a working, one-seat vehicle that levitates a few inches off an aluminum track using magnets.
Batteries that ran down too quickly proved a major challenge.

When Ph.D. student Tim Potteiger returned from a fall 2016 NASA internship, he was eager to use what he’d learned in real-time prognostics. He heard some teaching assistants discussing Pence’s levitation vehicle and started out volunteering to make a gauge for it.

Instead, the duo ended up with a battery switcher that lengthens the potential mileage on a charge for electric car batteries. They’re working with the Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization to get it to market.

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