Advanced Electric Vehicles Graduate Certificate

Thank you for your interest in the University of Detroit Mercy Advanced Electric Vehicle Graduate Certificate.

The certificate program began January 2010 and will prepare automotive engineers in the unique skills needed to build the next generation of advanced electric vehicles. Apply for these courses and lead your company into the future.

The purpose of this certificate program is to rapidly infuse important advanced electric vehicle (AEV) knowledge and capabilities into the technological team of the automotive and defense ground vehicle industries of the region. It will be aimed at specific learning outcomes defined in direct collaboration with leaders in AEV development in Industry.  Students successful in these courses will learn to apply their engineering talents to the development of the next generation of advanced electric vehicles.

Engineers in this program will select five of the seven newly created graduate courses that were designed by "competency teams," whose explicit purpose is to create curriculum that is directly responsive to industry needs, but also deploys the most current technology, strategies, methods and tools emerging from universities, corporations and national laboratories.  The certificate program is offered in two locations: University of Detroit Mercy McNichols Campus and Ford Rotunda Campus, Dearborn, MI (map) .

These five courses can be completed in one calendar year.

Course Number		Fall 2011	Winter 2012	Summer 2012	Fall 2012
AEV5010	Introduction to Advanced Electric Vehicles	McNichols	Rotunda	McNichols	McNichols
AEV5020	Controls Modeling and Design for AEV	x	McNichols	Rotunda	x
AEV5030	Energy Storage Systems	McNichols	Rotunda	x	McNichols
AEV5040	Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles	Rotunda	McNichols	x	Rotunda
AEV5050	Electric Drives/Electromechanical Energy Conversion	Rotunda	x	McNichols	Rotunda
AEV5060	Innovation and System Architecture for AEVs	McNichols	Rotunda	x	McNichols
AEV5070	System Engineering for AEVs	Rotunda	McNichols	x	Rotunda

1. Go to “First Time User Account Creation” (within "Apply Online": https://jackson.udmercy.edu/apply/)
2. Create a log-in ID and Pin #
3. Complete Graduate Application by choosing Certificate for Advanced Electric Vehicle as your program of choice.
4. You will be contacted by your Admissions Counselor to confirm receipt and will be asked to confirm your intention of Advanced Electric Vehicle course work.
5. Send official transcripts for all course work completed after high school. Transcripts marked "Issued to Student" will not be accepted.
6. Copy of current Resume. Resume can be emailed to: glissovs@udmercy.edu

• How to apply:

  Send Documents to:
  Advanced Electric Vehicle Program Office – E225
  University of Detroit Mercy
  4001 West McNichols Road
  Detroit, Michigan 48221.

  
  

  Questions? Contact David S. Cameron or Val Glisson at 313-993-1128 or aev@udmercy.edu

• Course Descriptions:

  Course Descriptions:

  The following course descriptions have been created through extensive dialogue between AEV leaders in industry and UDM faculty members and administrators:

  AEV 5010   Introduction to Advanced Electric Vehicles: fundamentals of AEVs and key challenges and opportunities of AEV technologies. The course will explain the engineering philosophy of various AEVs (HEV, PHEV and BEV) and, the component selection and design, modeling, and control of AEVs. Some existing AEV models will be used as  case studies.

  AEV 5020   Controls Modeling and Design for AEV: System and sub-systems, Modeling and design of AEVs as a system, principles of controls engineering for AEV. Significant use of  software tools.

  AEV 5030   Energy Storage Systems: Energy storage systems used in electric vehicles, batteries. Battery electro-chemistry, battery design and construction, charging and  discharging, power density, interaction of the batteries with other sub-systems.

  AEV 5040  Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles: Power electronics including switching, AC-DC, AC-AC conversion, electronic devices and circuits used for control and distribution of electric power.

  AEV 5050  Electric Drives/Electromechanical Energy Conversion: Variety of linear and rotary actuators, their characteristics, operating range and interactivity within power train system.

  AEV 5060 Innovation and System Architecture for AEVs: A variety of innovation techniques will be demonstrated and a methodical, proven approach to architecture will be studied. Theory and a variety of case studies – some related to Advanced Electric Vehicles (AEV) - will be used to illustrate successful, and not so successful, practices.

  AEV 5070  System Engineering for AEVs: Technologies which disrupt the way things have historically been done (such as a transition to Advanced Electric Vehicles (AEVs)) coupled with increasing use of digital tools in the design and validation processes warrant taking a very close look at the best tools and practices for executing the systems engineering process. Advanced Electric Vehicle (AEV) concepts will be used for careful decomposition and evaluation.