Automotive Engineering

Academic unit or major

Undergraduate major in Mechanical Engineering

Instructor(s)

Kazuyoshi Fushinobu / Toshihide Yamamoto / Yuji Harada / Hiroki Fujita / Toru Yoshioka / Masanori Honda / / Kazuo Sakamoto / Yusaku Takeda / Tomohiko Adachi

Class Format

Lecture (Blended)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

5-8 Fri

Class

-

Course Code

MEC.N331

Number of credits

200

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

3Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

This course will provide current technologies and up-to-date issues for the development of automobile by the lectures who have practical experience in research and development, in particular the following items:
1. General trend in automotive industry
2. Fundamental technologies associated with automobiles
3. Various topics associated with automobiles
The lecture consists of variety of fields associated with the automobile development.

Course description and aims

By completing this course, students will be able to understand the following issues.
1. Up-to-date issues in automotive industry
2. Specific technological elements that consists of automobile
3. Various issues and challenges associated with automobile development

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 of advanced research and development in automobiles by lecturers who have practical experience in the fields.

Keywords

Automobile, Fundamental technology, Societal issues

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills
• This class aims at learning 6 and 7 of learning objective.

Class flow

This course is organized by lecture and exercise for homework. Students take the classes in the lecture room, and each lecturer gives the lecture either in the lecture room or online in live-type. Lecturer of faculty member handles the interactive environment.
*Students need to prepare for using T2SCHOLA during the classes.

Course schedule/Objectives

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 the class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class by referring to relevant books, materials, provided course materials, etc.

Textbook(s)

Course material will be uploaded in T2SCHOLA 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

Many students are expected to take this course since the automotive technology is necessary in wide range of modern business sectors. Students must have successfully completed the classes of thermodynamics, fundamental fluid mechanics, mechanics of materials, and mechanical vibrations in mechanical engineering, or have equivalent knowledge, understanding and skills. Necessary course guidance may be provided for each particular student considering that the course is 300th-Level of ME Department. Students who enrolled on or after April 1, 2023 (23B~) are not eligible to take this course in FY2024.