Experimental Testing of Vehicles

Course Description:

This course, titled Experimental Testing of Vehicles and provided by the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT), is designed for community college students and automotive test technicians in the area of vehicle experimental testing. It is suitable for inclusion in an automotive engineering curriculum. Students will perform practice laboratory-based studies on various sensors and data acquisition systems (DAQ), setting up test procedures, wiring up sensors for measurements, conducting experiments, recording experimental data, and analyzing test results. Gaining experience on estimating experimental vehicle characteristics and writing a test report is a major part of this course. Some of the laboratory activities included in this course require MATLAB/Simulink simulation software.

Course Contents:

The Experimental Testing of Vehicles Syllabus offers a week-by-week breakdown of lessons and units in the course and also includes a course description and learning outcomes. The course is divided into fifteen weeks of instruction. Each week contains a topical lecture for the week and any corresponding laboratory or projects. The files included in this .zip file do not contain answer keys. Instructors looking to obtain answers to the quizzes and lab activities included in this resource should consult the file titled, READ ME.docx located in the subfolder titled Instructors Read Me.

For orientation purposes, viewers should begin with the Experimental Testing of Vehicles Syllabus document, which offers an overview of topics covered.

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Experimental Testing of Vehicles (81 files, 39.6MB)

• Experimental Testing of Vehicles Syllabus (Experimental Testing of Vehicles Syllabus.docx 43KB)
• Experimental Testing of Vehicles (Experimental Testing of Vehicles.docx 29KB)
• Instructors read me (21KB)
  • Instructor versions containing answers (READ ME.docx 21KB)
• Quizzes (35KB)
  • Experimental Testing of Vehicles, Quiz #1 (quiz1.docx 17KB)
  • Experimental Testing of Vehicles, Quiz #2 (quiz2.docx 18KB)
• Week_01_Lec_1_Safety and Role of Experiments (2 files, 3.4MB)
• Week_01_Lec_2_Measurement Systems (2 files, 6.3MB)
• Week_02_Lec_1_Calibration (2 files, 543KB)
• Week_02_Lec_2_Instruments (2 files, 1.4MB)
• Week_03_Lec_1_Instruments Specification (2 files, 1.6MB)
• Week_03_Lec_2_Signals (2 files, 1.1MB)
• Week_04_Lec_1_DAQ (1 file, 1.1MB)
• Week_04_Lec_2 and Week_05_Lec_1 (1 file, 4MB)
• Week_05_Lec_2_Report Writing (1 file, 213KB)
• Week_06_Lec_1_FMVSS and NHTSA (1 file, 1MB)
• Week_06_Lec_02_SAE Standards (1 file, 989KB)
• Week_07_Session 1 and 2_Project Assignment and Work (4 files, 2MB)
• Week_08_Lab 1 and 2_Strain Gauges (1 file, 2MB)
• Week_09_Lab 1 and 2_Hall-Effect Sensor (8 files, 3.4MB)
• Week_10_Students work on project with instructor in lab (4 files, 2MB)
• Week_11_Lab 1_Kistler Plate Sensor (2 files, 2MB)
• Week_11_Lab_02_Accelerometer (2 files, 635KB)
• Week_12_Students work on project with instructor in lab (4 files, 2MB)
• Week_13_Lab 1 and 2_Lifting Device and Control (4 files, 813KB)
• Week_14_Lab_1_WheelTransducer (2 files, 1.2MB)
• Week_14_Lab_2_4x4 Vehicle Chassis Dyno (2 files, 1.4MB)
• Week_15_Writing and presenting project report in class (1 file, 213KB)