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Ontario Tech University
   
    Feb 05, 2025  
2019-2020 Graduate Academic Calendar 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Academic Calendar [ARCHIVED CALENDAR]

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ENGR 5370G - Automotive Design Engineering


Methodology of vehicle system design, including the overall objectives and constraints relevant to vehicles. Total design of an automobile from an initial concept to creation, use and disposal. Design issues for various lightweight automotive structural materials (plastics, mouldings, composites), including stiffness, fatigue, vibrations, dent and crush resistance. Crashworthiness and design for safety. Design for manufacturing, automation, assembly, disassembly and recycling. Automotive applications of computer-aided design (CAD). Applications of automotive engineering design tools such as FEA, CFD and particularly including PACE software like ADAMS, Fluent, Autostudio, Unigraphics, Nastran and LSDYNA. Students will use PACE tools in an automotive design project using the software for structural, aerodynamic, materials, thermal and/or other design aspects of automotive systems.
Credit hours: 3



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