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Fall 2010 University of Detroit Mercy Electric Vehicle Courses
The University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) new Advanced Electric Vehicle (AEV) Graduate Certificate Program offers today’s engineering community innovative solutions for the development of tomorrow’s advanced electric and hybrid electric vehicles.
The AEV program emphasizes core electric and hybrid vehicle engineering expertise, including power electronics, power flow, energy management and systems architecture. It provides traditional engineers with new skill sets and competencies necessary to meet emerging advanced electric vehicle technologies.
Students will select five from seven courses designed to deploy the most current technology, strategies, methods and tools emerging from universities, corporations and national laboratories.
The AEV Graduate Certificate Program:
- Requires an undergraduate degree in engineering or science, or five years of relevant professional experience
- Can be pursued as a stand-alone initiative, or its courses can be applies to the pursuit of one of four master’s degree program within UDM’s College of Engineering and Science.
- Can be completed in one calendar year.
Course Descriptions:
- AEV5010: Introduction to Advanced Electric Vehicles (Semester 1 Required): fundamentals of AEVs and key challenges and opportunities of AEV technologies. The course will explain the engineering philosophy of various AEVs (HEV, PHEV and BEV) and, the component selection and design, modeling, and control of AEVs. Some existing AEV models will be used as case studies.
- AEV5020: Controls Modeling and Design for AEV (Semester 3 Required): System and sub-systems, Modeling and design of AEVs as a system, principles of controls engineering for AEV. Significant use of software tools.
- AEV5030: Energy Storage Systems (Semester 2 Elective): Energy storage systems used in electric vehicles, batteries. Battery electro-chemistry, battery design and construction, charging and discharging, power density, interaction of the batteries with other sub-systems.
- AEV5040: Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles (Semester 3 Elective): Power electronics including switching, AC-DC, AC-AC conversion, electronic devices and circuits used for control and distribution of electric power.
- AEV5050: Electric Drives/Electromechanical Energy Conversion (Semester 2 Required): Variety of linear and rotary actuators, their characteristics, operating range and interactivity within power train system.
- AEV5060: Innovation and System Architecture for AEVs (Semester 2 Elective): A variety of innovation techniques will be demonstrated and a methodical, proven approach to architecture will be studied. Theory and a variety of case studies – some related to Advanced Electric Vehicles (AEV) - will be used to illustrate successful, and not so successful, practices.
- AEV5070: System Engineering for AEVs (Semester 3 Elective): Technologies which disrupt the way things have historically been done (such as a transition to Advanced Electric Vehicles (AEVs)) coupled with increasing use of digital tools in the design and validation processes warrant taking a very close look at the best tools and practices for executing the systems engineering process. Advanced Electric Vehicle (AEV) concepts will be used for careful decomposition and evaluation.
To apply:
- Go to http://eng-sci.udmercy.edu/programs/aev/index.htm
- Click on “Apply Online Now”
- Click on “First Time User Account Creation”
- Create a log-in ID and Pin #
- Complete Graduate Application by choosing Advanced Electric Vehicle Certificate Program as your program of choice.
- You will be contacted by your Admissions Counselor to confirm receipt and will be asked to confirm your intention of “Advanced Electric Vehicle” course work or MS in Engineering Management.
- Official Transcripts must be sent for all coursework completed after high school to the Admissions Office at 4001 West McNichols Road, Detroit, Michigan 48221.
- Please forward your resume to Valarie Steppes-Glisson. E-mail: glissovs@udercy.edu
Upon registration in the initial AEV5010: Introduction to Advanced Electric Vehicles course, students are placed in “Cohort” groups that follow the set curriculum together until completion. Class scheduling and locations for current students can be accessed by clicking the following links:
Questions? Please contact Jodi Abatemarco, Graduate Admissions Counselor by calling 313.993.3289, or Valarie Steppes-Glisson, MEM/MPD Program Office, by calling 313.993.1128 glissovs@udmercy.edu.
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