Automotive Electronic Systems Integration

Description

The course addresses the integration of electronic components and systems in automotive designs. It provides students with an overview of the major electronic systems in automobiles and describes how automotive manufacturers specify, integrate and evaluate these systems.

Text

Automotive Electrics-Automotive Electronics, Fifth Edition (Bosch Handbooks)

Course Objectives

1. Students will become familiar with the various electronic components and systems in a typical automobile.
2. Students will become familiar with the various automotive communication busses and be able to select an appropriate bus for a particular application.
3. Students will learn to obtain information about a vehicle’s status or performance by monitoring the various communications busses.
4. Students will become familiar with automotive design and development cycles and how vehicle electronics fits in to this process.
5. Students will learn to recognize factors that are likely to impact the cost and reliability of electronic components.

Course Topics

1. Overview of vehicle electronic systems
2. Automotive electronic components, sensors and actuators
3. Automotive Communication Busses – CAN, MOST, …
4. Electric power generation and distribution
5. Electronic system design and modeling
6. Electronics testing and troubleshooting
7. Electromagnetic compatibility
8. Process Chain from an OEM’s perspective
9. Process Chain from a supplier’s perspective.
10. Future Directions in Electronic systems integration.

Schedule

This 3-credit graduate course is part of the new Automotive Engineering graduate degree program at Clemson. It is tentatively scheduled to be offered again the Spring semester of 2009.