Course: Automotive engineering and technology

Course name: Automotive engineering and technology
Course code: DE 655
Course credits: 6
Course duration: 3 weeks

To understand working of automobiles from a system level approach through hands on/field experience.
To observe common technical issues in the selected category of vehicle.
To get familiar with engineering and technology side of automobiles and develop broader system level understanding of mobility and vehicle technology
To learn about the developments in various aspects of technology that led to the evolution of mobility and vehicle design.

Select one of the following mobility systems: Bicycles, Motorcycles, Three wheelers, Four wheelers and Commercial vehicle and work for a week with a workshop which specializes in one category.
Parallel Activity: Select a sub-system commonly used in Mobility systems, e.g. steering, brakes, etc.
Observe and document the common problems faced by the users.
Select second category and repeat the same process. Observe the differences between category one and two.
Highlight the observations, learnings and key achievements of the two workshop sessions through presentation.
Complete literature review of the evolution of the previous selected sub-system. Make a poster (or presentation) and highlight key observations during the workshop and the literature review.

Julian Happian-Smith, Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) Introduction to Modern Vehicle Design, Publisher: Elsevier, 2001
HeinzHeisl er: Advanced Vehicle Technology, Publisher: Butterworth -Heinemann, 2002
Seth Leitman, Bob Brant, Leitman Seth: Build your Own Electric Vehicle: Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies. 2008

Sugandh Malhotra