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- Undergraduate major in Mechanical Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hanamura Katsunori Kizaki Mikio
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Fri5-8(I121)
- Group
- -
- Course number
- MEC.N331
- Credits
- 2
- Academic year
- 2021
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2021/9/5
- 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 development of automobile, considering concerned issues, focusing of the following issues.
1. Significant issues for automobiles
2. Power trains and auto-transmission
3. Steering stability by chassis technologies.
4. Aerodynamics around body
5. Thermal management in engine
6. Model base design
Student learning outcomes
By completing this course, students will be able to understand the following issues.
1. Significant issues for automobiles
2. Power trains and auto-transmission
3. Steering stability by chassis technologies.
4. Aerodynamics around body
5. Thermal management in engine
6. Model base design
Course taught by instructors with work experience
| ✔ Applicable | How instructors' work experience benefits the course |
|---|---|
| This course will provide a consistent education from fundamentals to solutions of practical issues for installation relating to current advanced researches and development of power trains, auto-transmission, steering stability, aerodynamics, thermal management and model base design by lecturers who are expertized by practical experiences for those fields. |
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 and significant issues relating to automobiles | Understand significant issues and direction of development and new technologies in automobiles faced to great change |
| Class 2 | Future technologies of electrification of power trains | Learn a technology of electric power trains such as HV, EV and FCV and an electric motorized society in future |
| Class 3 | Development of units for electrification of power trains | Learn new technologies on internal combustion engines and future development |
| Class 4 | Advances in battery technologies | Learn advances in battery technologies and future plan for development |
| Class 5 | Advances in fuel cell technologies and changes in development environment | Learn history of Toyota production technology and desired manufacturing |
| Class 6 | Evolution of electronic devices for power trains | Understand an evolution of electronic devices technologies supporting power trains |
| Class 7 | Future production technologies for electrification of power trains | Learn an issue and a trend of production technologies for electrification of power trains |
| Class 8 | Future mobility services | Learn a future mobility services |
| Class 9 | Role of installing parts services for CASE | Understand a role of installing parts services for CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric) |
| Class 10 | Manufacturing process for excellent platforms | Understand a current strategy building in quality for platforms |
| Class 11 | Evolution of chassis control technologies | Learn a fundamental of vehicle motion and suspension systems and understand a shassis control technologies for high comfortability to drive with safety |
| Class 12 | Evolution of technologies for fuel efficiency and power performance in automobiles | Learn an evolution of technologies for fuel efficiency and power performance in automobiles |
| Class 13 | Advances in technologies of cooling systems for automobiles | Learn research and development of cooling systems well-applied for various power trains |
| Class 14 | Future researches (Robotics, Human Center Researches, etc.) | Understand future researches such as robotics and human center researches |
Out-of-Class Study Time (Preparation and Review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Some documents will be uploaded in OCW system for each lecture.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None
Assessment criteria and methods
Homework report (40%) and the final report (60%) will be evaluated for score.
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
