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ME50402: Scientific principles for automotive technologies

[Page last updated: 09 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 100
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: EXIC 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • In Class Test (EXIC 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: On completion of this unit, you will be able to:
1. Use a first principles approach to solve specific vehicle design and technology problems
2. Identify and define scientific principles governing successful technological innovations in the automotive sector
3. Use fundamental scientific methods (including hypothesis, observation, and empirical data) in order to evaluate the feasibility of emerging technologies
4. Appropriately select and size mechanical and electrical hardware and subsystems for a given application.


Synopsis: Develop your knowledge of the physics-based principles which govern the operation of automotive technologies.
You will review the impacts of technological innovation on progress in the automotive sector, and use scientific methods to evaluate emerging technologies.
You will investigate and implement processes for selecting mechanical and electrical hardware.

Content:
* Technological innovation case studies
* Application of fundamental scientific principles and methods
* Force systems
* Conservation of energy
* Geometry and kinematics
* Electrical circuits.

Course availability:

ME50402 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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