Juan Sarcia, an engineering student at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology, won the top prize at the Contest for Young Scientists during the recently held NSTF Science Expo.

His winning project involves real-time monitoring of fuel, speed, battery voltage, faults and information obtained from the car’s ECU vehicle engine control unit (ECU). The data is transferred onto an android application and can be saved and accessed in real time from a web page and recorded for monitoring. The system can be implemented by any type of car.

The contest, organised by the National Student Travel Foundation, encourages students to work individually or in teams to research and develop an original and creative scientific project to be exhibited at the expo.

Sarcia will now represent Malta at the EU Contest for Young Scientists to take place in Warsaw, Poland, later this year.

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