Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Imagine, design, build and operate machines, equipment and processes to provide a solution to a complex problem of energy production, conversion and transmission by integrating the needs, constraints, context and technical, economic, societal, ethical and environmental issues.
• Design and dimension machines, equipment or processes for the production, conversion and transmission of energy in response to the problem posed, based on the state of the art, a study or a model; evaluate them with regard to the various parameters of the specifications.
• Integrate rational energy management.
• Mobilize a structured set of scientific knowledge and skills and specialized techniques to meet, with expertise and adaptability, the missions of the civil engineer in energy engineering.
• Master and appropriately mobilize knowledge, models, methods and techniques related to solid and fluid mechanics, energy exchange, dynamic and vibratory behavior of systems, mechanical manufacturing and production, machine operation, physical phenomena, machines, equipment and processes related to the production, conversion and transmission of energy
• Study a machine, equipment, or process for the production, conversion, or transmission of energy by critically selecting theories, models, and methodological approaches, and by considering multidisciplinary aspects.
• Identify and discuss potential applications of new and emerging technologies in the energy field.
• Assess the validity of models and results given the state of the science and the characteristics of the problem.
• Plan, manage and carry out projects according to their objectives, resources and constraints, ensuring the quality of activities and deliverables.
• Meet deadlines and work plan and comply with specifications.
• Work effectively in a team, develop leadership, make decisions in multidisciplinary, multicultural and international contexts.
• Interact effectively with other actors to carry out joint projects in various contexts (multidisciplinary, multicultural and international).
• Communicate and exchange information in a structured manner - orally, graphically and in writing, in French and in one or more other languages - at the scientific, cultural, technical and interpersonal levels, adapting to the goal pursued and the audience concerned.
• Argue and convince, both orally and in writing, in front of a client, a colleague, teachers and juries.
• Use and produce scientific and technical documents (report, plan, specifications, ...) adapted to the goal and the public concerned.

Learning Outcomes of UE

- Understand basic requirements placed by mechanical systems in electric vehicles.
- Describe the structure of electric drive systems and their role in vehicular applications.
- Describe the operation of DC motor drives to satisfy four-quadrant operation to meet mechanical load requirement.
- Understand the basic principles of self-controlled synchronous AC drives.
- Learn speed control of induction motor drives and how to enhance the dynamic performance implementing vector control
- Acquire practical skills with a small simulation project. You will be able to evaluate the energy perfomance and environmental footprint of a vehicle for a given driving cycle

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

1. Electrical Vehicle Drives: automotive EV classification and power train architectures; electric railway vehicles; torque and power requirements; DC motor drives: basic principle of speed control, field-weakening, energetic optimization; Self-controlled synchronous AC motor drives; induction motor drives: scalar control, slip regulation, current-controlled voltage-fed inverter drive; induction motor-based vector control of EV; Switch-reluctance motor drives.
2. Small simulation project focusing on a fuel cell hybrid EV: energy management system, performance and environmental footprint assessment (e.g. fuel consumption, EV battery degradation, etc.) for one or more driving cycles.

Prior Experience

Not applicable