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- Undergraduate major in Mechanical Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hanamura Katsunori Takami Akihide Yamamoto Toshihide Seo Nobuhide Okazaki Toshimi Takeda Yusaku Aoki Osamu Adachi Tomohiko Yoshioka Toru
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Fri5-8(I121)
- Group
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- Course number
- MEC.N331
- Credits
- 2
- Academic year
- 2018
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2018/6/7
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- Japanese
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Course description and aims
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.
Student learning outcomes
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.
Keywords
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
Competencies that will be developed
| ✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
This course is organized by lecture and exercise for homework.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Overview relating to automobiles | Understand significant issues and changes of environment surrounding automobiles |
| Class 2 | Current and future technologies of power train | Learn a role of engines for vehicles being responsible for CO2 reduction in future |
| Class 3 | Current and future technologies of power train | Learn revolutions of technologies on engines and transmissions for future |
| Class 4 | Current and future technologies of power train | Learn revolusions of engine technologies from a viewpoint of fuels |
| Class 5 | Current and future technologies of Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles | Understand mechanisms, characteristics and various system structures of hybrid vehicles including a general trend of electric vehicles |
| Class 6 | Current and future technologies of Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles | Understand mechanisms and trends of main units of electric vehicles such as electric motors and batteries |
| Class 7 | Current and future advanced safety technologies | Understand future and current intelligent transportation technologies for no casualty by traffic accidents |
| Class 8 | Current and future advanced safety technologies | Understand future and current technologies of Intelligent Transport Ssystem and connectivity |
| Class 9 | Human engineering and automotive engineering | Understand significant issues and current R&D for human centric engineering |
| Class 10 | Perceptual engineering and automotive engineering | Learn current R&D of vehicles customized for perceptual aspects and emotional needs from human beings through brain science |
| Class 11 | Current and future technologies for computer aided engineering | Understand application of CAE into development of vehicles (ex. collision safety) and outline of CAE technologies for development of automobiles |
| Class 12 | Current and future technologies for computer aided engineering | Learn future trend of CAE for development of automobiles and application of CAE into engine development (ex. combustion systems) |
| Class 13 | Current and future Model Based Development (MBD) | Understand model based development (MBD) and concrete examples for SKYACTIV engine technologies |
| Class 14 | Current and future Model Based Development (MBD) | Understand importance of model based development (MBD) for manufacturing and recovery of local area in Japan through future development of automobiles |
| Class 15 | Current and future automatic oparation technologies | Understand a strategy provided from Mazda and a world trend for automatic operation technologies |
Textbook(s)
Some documents will be provided for every time.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None
Assessment criteria and methods
Homework report and the final report
Related courses
- SCE.M201 ： Fundamental Kinematics and Kinetics for Mechanical Systems
- ZUL.A201 ： Motion and Vibration Control
- MEC.E201 ： Thermodynamics (Mechanical Engineeirng)
- MEC.F201 ： Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
- MEC.C201 ： Mechanics of Materials
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
None
