2020 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Undergraduate major in Mechanical Engineering
Automotive Engineering
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Mechanical Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Katsunori Hanamura / Mikio Kizaki / Yoshikazu Asami / Ryo Kaneda / Takuya Kurihara / Koichi Hirata / Takashi Nakagawa / Mitsuhiro Miura / Takeshi Hamaguchi / Tomoshi Takahashi / Kotaro Hoshihara / Koichi Sawamoto / Toshiki Maezawa / Ryo Yoshioka / Takanori Tatematsu
- Class Format
- Lecture (Zoom)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-8 Fri (I121)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- MEC.N331
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
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
Course description and aims
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
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
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
- 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/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Current and future technologies of internal combustion engines for power train | Learn new technologies on internal combustion engines and future development |
| Class 4 | Reseach and Development of fuel cells and future technologies | Learn advances in fuel cell technologies and future plan for development |
| Class 5 | Advances in production technologies and deired manufacturing | Learn history of Toyota production technology and desired manufacturing |
| Class 6 | New manufacturing using MBD for development of automobiles | Learn a V shape process (planning -> designing -> validation) by Model Base Development and by Model Base System Engineering |
| Class 7 | Advances in conected vhicles supported by electronic technologies | Learn technologies required for MaaS (Mobilty as a Serivice), conected services and conected vhicles revolusions of power electronics and relating technologies in future |
| Class 8 | Advances in automatic driving technologies for practical use | Learn a fundamentals of advanced safety technologies and significant issues for automatic driving in future |
| Class 9 | Safety technologies for automobiles | Understand a comprehensive safety concept, fundamentals and development of safety technologies for collision and its application for practical vhicles |
| Class 10 | Manufacturing process for excellent platforms | Understand a current strategy building in quality for platforms |
| Class 11 | Shassis control technologies for comfortable driving and mobility | Learn a fundamental of vehicle motion and suspension systems and understand a shassis control technologies for high comfortability to drive with safety |
| Class 12 | Advances in development process for fuel efficiency in automobiles | Learn a development process from MILS (Model in the Loop Simulation) to vhicle development through evaluation of a unit |
| 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 | Latest trends in material technologies for automobiles | Understand the latest trends in material technologies for weight saving, comodity, improved durability |
Study advice (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
Evaluation methods and criteria
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
None