MECA0497-2 : Vehicle performance

Study Programmes 2015-2016

MECA0497-2

Vehicle performance

Duration :

15h Th, 10h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in electrical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in electrical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in electro-mechanical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in electro-mechanical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in mechanical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in mechanical engineering (120 ECTS)		2
Certificate in sustainable automotive engineering		2

Lecturer :

Coordinator :

Language(s) of instruction :

English language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

Lab works on chassis dynamometer. Computer lab work: Normalized measurement of fuel consumption and emissions on NEDC and real driving cycles.

Learning outcomes of the course :

Knowledge of major performance critera of road vehicles
To be able to calculate the performance and the fuel consumption / emissions of vehicle on standard and real-life driving cycles
To be able to write a MATLAB code to evaluate the energy (fuel) consumption of a vehicle on a given driving cycle

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Lab works on chassis dynamometer. Computer lab work: Normalized measurement of fuel consumption and emissions on NEDC and real driving cycles.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

One week in September at the Campus Automobile in Spa-Francorchamps