Nuestra NEBRIJA 34 - julio 2020

38 The Nebrija Vehicle Engineering Research Group- GREEN has among its research lines the recovery of energy in vehicles. Combustion vehicles waste approximately 70% of available energy in the form of fuel [1] , which is dissipated by mechanical mechanisms -such as the friction of the wheels on the road, or the damped movement of the suspension- and thermal mechanisms -such as the heat generated in the combustion in the various systems between the engine and the vehicle exhaust. There are several technologies that can try to recover useful energy from this heat dissipated into the environment [2] , and it is on this development that the GREEN researchers are working. In June 2019, GREEN proposed a pilot experience to twenty of the most outstanding Bachelor's degree students of Nebrija University's Polytechnic School: the I Nebrija Introduction to Research Week. This experience consisted of an intensive week of work in which the students -in multidisciplinary teams- had to learn a new technology, design, manufacture and test a thermoacoustic Stirling motor with low-cost materials for the recovery of thermal energy [3] . This month of June 2020, the second edition of the Introduction to Research Week (II-SIIN) was held and, on this occasion, the Nebrija-Santander Global Chair in Energy Recovery in Surface Transport was in charge of its organization as part of the development of its activities, in order to promote, support and drive research. Thermoelectric technology was the protagonist of this last edition, and had the presence of the Stirling Center of the Mondragon Corporation, which, in recent years, has specialized in this type of technology thanks to the development of projects linked to the doctoral thesis of Dr. Gustavo García Ramos on the subject [4] . During the II-SIIN, transfer, training and dissemination actions were carried out in the area of research on energy recovery using thermoelectric technology. Within this framework, In order to bring students closer to the research being carried out in the Nebrija-Santander Global Chair in Energy Recovery in Surface Transport, the second edition of the Nebrija Introduction to Research Week issued a group of outstanding students the challenge of recovering energy from vehicles through thermoelectricity. Brilliant minds face the challenge of the II Nebrija Introduction to Research Week Javier Aranceta Aguirre y Carmen Iniesta Barberá Director and coordinator of the Nebrija-Santander Global Chair in Energy Recovery in Surface Transport Nebrija Research