This course will provide current technologies and significant issues for automobile manufacturing including issues, such as body design, steering stability, aerodynamics around body, thermal management in engine, aftertreatment for environment protection, auto-transmission, auto-driving, crash safety, design using CAE or MBD.
By completing this course, students will be able to understand bottlenecks of manufacturing of body, steering ability, aerodynamics around body, thermal management in engine, aftertreatemnt of exhaust gases, auto-transmission, auto-driving and crash safety and to create a future traffic system.
body desgin, steering stability, aerodynamics around body, thermal management in engine, aftertreatment for environment protection, auto-transmission, auto-driving, crash safety, desgin using CAE or MBD
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
This course is organized by lecture and exercise for homework.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Significant issues relating to automobiles | Understand significant issues, such as energy supply, depletion of resources, environmental pollution and traffic system. |
Class 2 | Evolution of technology for internal combustion engines | Learn evolution of technology for internal combustion engines. |
Class 3 | Future reviews and advanced technologies of auto-transmission | Understand fundamentals of auto-transmission and application for hybrid vehicles |
Class 4 | Technologies for inprovement of thermal efficiency and fuel consumption in motorcycles and general purpose engines | Understand significant issues of motorcycles and general purpose engines and learn technologies for improvement of thermal efficiency. |
Class 5 | Technologies of electric motors and direction of power train | Understand mechanisms of hybrid and electric vehicles, and make an image of future traffic systems. |
Class 6 | Technologies for safety in automobiles (Crash safety) | Understand technologies of safety in automobiles, especially, crash safety. |
Class 7 | Automatic driving from Intelligent Transport System (ITS) | Understand intelligent transport system and then possibility and technologies of automatic driving. |
Class 8 | Evolution of vehicle connected through internet | Understand evolution of vehicles connected through internet and then significant issues. |
Class 9 | Technologies for chassis for flexible driving | Understand basic theory of steering stability and learn technology of control and desgin for stability |
Class 10 | Advanced technologies for aerodynamics and thermal management in vehicle development | Understand aerodynamics and thermal management in vehicle development. |
Class 11 | Manufactring of high quality functional platform | Understand manufacturing and significant issures of platform for vehicle development. |
Class 12 | Application of model based development (MBD) and computer aided engineering (CAE) for new vehicle development | Learn vehicle development using model based development and computer aided engineering. |
Class 13 | Advanced material science and technology for supporting vehicle development | Understand advanced material science and technology for supporting vehicle development, such as light materials. |
Class 14 | Manufacturing in Honda through desgin of automobiles | Understand manufacturing in Honda through desgin of automobiles |
Class 15 | Energy recovery technology in racing machine | Understand energy reovery technology for inprovement of thernal efficiency in racing machines |
Some documents will be provided for every time.
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Homework report and the final report
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