Automotive Systems Engineering MSc
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Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Loughborough
Overview
Our Automotive Systems Engineering MSc programme aims to provide those of you with an interest in the automotive industry with knowledge and technical expertise in a wide range of automotive disciplines.
Our Automotive Systems Engineering MSc programme was created in partnership with companies such as the Ford Motor Company and Jaguar Land Rover.
We have a strong and growing research programme with world-class research activities and facilities. We have four major research groups working across the technologies of automotive and aeronautical engineering. Each group works on a variety of research topics, ranging from the development of new low emissions combustion systems for gas turbine engines, through to fundamental investigations into the operation of hydrogen powered fuel cells.
Our Automotive Systems Engineering MSc programme is accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (towards Chartered status).
A key element of our Automotive Systems Engineering MSc programme is the opportunity for you to access the vehicle proving ground facilities at Horiba MIRA Ltd near Nuneaton. In addition, you will have use of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computation.
What makes this programme different?
Created in partnership with companies such as the Ford Motor Company and Jaguar Land Rover
Accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (towards Chartered status)
Who should study this programme?
Our Automotive Systems Engineering MSc programme is aimed at existing or prospective product development engineers.
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About this course
Your personal and professional development
Our Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering is committed to helping you develop the skills and attributes you need to progress successfully in your chosen career.
Future career prospects
Our graduates from Automotive Systems Engineering MSc work primarily in product design and development groups, and are sought after by a wide range of automotive companies. Students who wish to pursue other careers are well-equipped to work in a wide range of sectors within the vehicle industry.
Graduate destinations
Previous graduate destinations include:
Key Account Manager, BFCEC
Automotive Instructor, Bahrain Training Institute
Software Engineer, Changan UK R&D Center
Structural Dynamics Engineer, EADS Astrium (France)
Estimator, Galliford Try
Purchase Engineer, J J Electric Ltd (Thailand)
multiple job roles including Electrical Engineer, Chassis Electronics Intern, Automotive Engineer, Chassis Electronics Engineer, Electrical Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Powertrain Specialist Engineer, Project Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics CAE Analyst, and Electrical Systems Engineer, Jaguar Land Rover
Graduate Production Engineering, Shell
Testing Engineer, TVS Motor company (India)
Your personal development
On successful completion of this programme, you should be able to:
communicate effectively
generate and analyse data to solve complex engineering problems
optimise use of resources and time in project planning and implementation
undertake technical roles in a team working the development of vehicle systems
learn independently and be familiar with how to access key information
sort, manipulate and present data in a way which facilitates effective analysis and decision making
critically appraise engineering problems.
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Subjects
- Computational
- Vehicle Aerodynamics
- IT risk
- Accredited
- Planning
- Gas
- Electrical
- Mechanics
- Design
- Calibration
- Risk
- IT
- Automotive
- Systems Engineering
- Project
- Systems
- Industry
- Engineering
- Automotive Systems
Course programme
What you'll study
Our Automotive Systems Engineering MSc is designed to provide a broad-based and sound education in advanced topics of relevance to automotive engineering via in-depth study.
Modules
Automotive Systems Engineering MSc covers a wide range of topics; to give you a taster we have expanded on some of the core modules affiliated with this programme and the specific assessment methods associated with each module.
- Compulsory
- Optional
Compulsory
MSc Project (60 credits)
MSc Project (60 credits)
The aim of this module is for the student to understand how to carry out a substantial research project within a systems engineering framework and to develop computer programming skills, communication skills, project time planning skills and awareness of the importance of engineering ethics to prepare the student to become a professional engineer.
Assessment
- Coursework (100%)
Optional
Autonomous Vehicle Systems (20 Credits)
Autonomous Vehicle Systems (20 Credits)
Introduction of autonomous vehicle system
Techniques
- Control and optimization techniques
- Path planning and collision avoidance
- Path following
- Sensor error modelling
- Sensor fusion and Kalman filtering
Advanced topics/applications
- Autonomous emergency braking
- Moving object tracking
- Rapid mapping
Assessments
- Coursework 100% Technical reports to be completed after the block taught period
- Assignment one 50%: Data fusion of collected data from a test vehicle using Kalman filtering techniques
- Assignment two 50%: an investigation of path planning and path following techniques
Body Engineering (20 Credits)
Body Engineering (20 Credits)
Vehicle Loading:
- Design load cases (maximum braking, cornering and traction)
- Lateral load transfer during cornering
- Role of body compliance in lateral load transfer and vehicle handling
- Suspension load calculations
Computational Continuum Mechanics:
- Fundamentals of continuum mechanics
- Plate and lamination theory
- Linear elastic finite element method
- Non-linear continuum mechanics
- The time dimension
- Fatigue
- Fracture
Vehicle crashworthiness:
- Traffic injury statistics
- Physics of crash injury causation and biomechanical tolerance of humans to crash forces
- Principles of Passive Safety (occupant protection)
- General crash performance requirements for the car body structure. Structural crashworthiness for front and side impact
- Integration of vehicle restraints and body structure for crashworthiness
- Real world challenges for structural crashworthiness Assessments
Assessments
- Coursework 100%
- Assignment one: 30% Technical report to be completed after the block taught period
- Assignment two: 70% Technical report to be completed after the block taught period
Powertrain Calibration Optimisation (20 Credits)
Powertrain Calibration Optimisation (20 Credits)
Characterisation
- Principles of modelling: requirements, form of models, fitting and diagnostic methods; use of computer tools; methods for selecting appropriate modelling techniques; properties of algorithms and techniques used for model creation
- Design of experiments (DOE): statistical principles and methods including normal and Student's t distributions, analysis of variance (ANOVA); the methods, structure and progression of DOE; factorial, response surfaces and optimal methods
Optimisation
- Formulation of the optimisation requirement; principles of optimisation; selection of techniques and application of diagnostics; optimisation in practice
- Operating modes for engine and powertrain and the associated modelling and optimisation techniques
Emissions
- Overview of calibration tasks for both diesel and spark ignition including the application of DOE, modelling and optimisation methods; techniques used for in-vehicle optimisation
- Application of optimisation to powertrain emissions including optimisation on the test bed and in the vehicle
- Principles of diagnosis: methods and algorithms; use of embedded models; use of observers and Kalman-Bucy filters. Application of diagnosis methods to emissions controls systems and components
- Emissions legislation (performance and diagnosis); the consequential demands placed on powertrain technical solutions; methods used to develop powertrain solutions from legislation
Assessments
- Coursework 100%
- Coursework 70%: An investigation and evaluation of a calibration process to be applied to an engine in which certain specified improvements are required
- Coursework 25%: The specification of an experimental and modelling strategy for a specified operational requirement
- Coursework 5%: Pre-module assessment on Matlab prior to the block-taught module week
Sustainable Vehicle Powertrains (20 Credits)
Sustainable Vehicle Powertrains (20 Credits)
Introduction to Advanced and Alternative Powertrain Technologies and future technology road map
Advanced combustion engines
- Turbocharger: Fundamental theory and applications
- Engine downsize: Performances and emission challenges
- Advanced engine combustion technologies: HCCI, Miller cycle and other potential combustion concepts
- Alternative transport fuels: Overview of the benefits and characteristics of alternative transport fuels
- In-cylinder formation of pollutant emissions: Fundamentals of the in-cylinder formation of pollutant emissions from Gasoline and Diesel IC engines
Electrification
- Batteries: Basic electrochemistry, charging and discharging, battery management for vehicle applications
- Electric Machines: Electromagnetism, electromotive force, back EMF, commutation, magnetic circuits and materials, conductors, principle sources of losses, motor types, emerging concepts, efficiency, operating characteristics
- Fuel cells: Chemistry, systems, management
- Hybrid and electric vehicle powertrain integration: architecture, optimisation, modelling case studies
Assessments
- Coursework 100%
- Assignment one: 50% Technical report to be completed after the block taught period
- Assignment two: 50% Technical report to be completed after the block taught period
Vehicle Aerodynamics (20 Credits)
Vehicle Aerodynamics (20 Credits)
Introduction to Vehicle Aerodynamics
- Relevance, systems engineering approach in aerodynamic development process, basic concepts, sign conventions, basic vehicle characteristics, aerodynamic design philosophies, Influence of aerodynamics on vehicle performance. Legislative considerations
- Origin of the aerodynamic forces: Pressure forces, skin friction, induced drag
- General flow field around bluff bodies, front end flow, rear end flow, characterisics of basic vehicle geometries
- Cooling heating and ventilation requirements, basic internal flows
- Cooling system optimisation
- Crosswind stability: Sources of instability, full scale and model test techniques
- Surface contamination
Experimental techniques
- Tunnel design, blockage correction, ground plane simulation, scale model testing
- Methods of measuring vehicle drag on a test track: Coast-down and steady state test techniques
- Wind tunnel test methodologies, wind tunnel instrumentation, pressure measurements, hot wire anemometry, flow visualisation, PIV
Computational methods
- Review of computational methods for vehicle aerodynamics
- Governing equations, Numerical discretisation, Introduction to turbulence and turbulence modelling, Boundary Condition Selection
- CAD representation and grid generation, Post processing
Supporting fundamentals
- Boundary layers and wakes, interpretation of aerodynamic data
- Origin of the aerodynamic forces: Pressure forces, skin friction, induced drag
Assessments
- Coursework 100%
- Assignment one: 50% Technical report to be completed after the block taught period
- Assignment two: 50% Technical report to be completed after the block taught period
Vehicle and Powertrain Functional Performance (20 Credits)
Vehicle and Powertrain Functional Performance (20 Credits)
Systems Engineering Overview
Introduction to Systems Engineering, contrast to component engineering, relevance to the modern automotive industry.
Vehicle Performance and Economy
Subjective and objective measures of vehicle performance, time to speed calculation - transmission efficiency, equivalent mass, launch from rest, wheel spin, gear change time, design of gear ratios, fuel maps, use of CVT, steady state fuel consumption, effect of engine type, simulation study in Simulink.
Transmission fundamentals
Drivetrain components; clutch, synchromesh, torque convertor.
Engines
- Thermodynamics: gases and gas laws, thermodynamic processes in reciprocating IC engines, open and closed systems, engine cycles
- Engine design and operating parameters, engine performance parameters
- Combustion: fuel and chemical equations, combustion processes in SI engines, combustion processes in CI engines
- Engine breathing and advanced valve-train-review of breathing theories, methods of characteristics
- IC engines modelling techniques
- Fundamentals of engine mechanics
- Dynamometer measurements, engine dynamometers, chassis dynamometer
Supporting fundamentals
Review of Matrices, Laplace transforms, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
Assessments
- Coursework assignment 1: 10% Group assignment carried out during the module week that includes a group presentation
- Coursework assignment 2: 40% In depth technical report carried out after the block taught period
- Coursework assignment 5: 50% In depth technical report carried out after the block taught period
Vehicle Dynamics (20 Credits)
Vehicle Dynamics (20 Credits)
Tyres
Principles of the brush tyre model; the combined slip Pacejka Model.
Suspension and Steering
- Roll centre location
- Suspension derivatives (camber / scrub)
- Forces and moments in the steering system, suspension jacking and anti-squat / anti-dive effects
Modelling
- Use of state-space for linear models
- Steady-state cornering via the bicycle handling model
- Understeer gradient, oversteer, critical speed
- Development of a 6DOF nonlinear handling model in Matlab / Simulink comprising nonlinear tyre, lateral load transfer and roll moment distribution
Computer lab sessions
- Ride modelling
- Analysis of simulated open-loop handling response
- Use of state feedback for longitudinal control
Vehicle testing at MIRA proving ground
- Standard objective handling tests
- Vehicle test specification and execution
- Risk assessment
- Data analysis
Assessments
- Coursework 100%
- Assignment one: 50% Technical report to be completed after the block taught period
- Assignment two: 50% Technical report to be completed after the block taught period
Vehicle Electrical Systems Integration (20 Credits)
Vehicle Electrical Systems Integration (20 Credits)
Electrical Systems
- Analysis of circuits
- Basic design for electromagnetic compatibility
- Introduction to vehicle electrical architecture
- Introduction to application of power electronics
- Controller Area Network (CAN bus)
Sensors
- Basic sensors
- Principles and capability - GPS, IMU, Camera, Radar, Lidar
- Risk assessment methods
- Reliability assessment methods
- Introduction to functional safety methods
Assessments
- Coursework 100%
- Data collection and analysis from various sensors (60%)
- Risk and Reliability modelling (40%)
Automotive Systems Engineering MSc