Teaching abroad: FKFS Summer School in Stuttgart, Germany

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Center for Automotive Research's professors Giorgio Rizzoni and Yann Guezennec, assistant professor Marcello Canova and Simona Onori, PhD, recently taught short courses at Stuttgart International Summer School on the topic of Mobility: System Competence in Electric, Hybrid and Combustion Powertrains. The week and a half program focused on "Energy Analysis and Modeling of Hybrid Electric Vehicles" (Rizzoni), "Simulation and Control of Hybrid Electric Vehicles" (Onori) and "Introduction to Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems for Automotive Applications" (Guezennec, Canova).

This educational program for working engineers from the automotive field was the first installment in what is planned to be an annual program at Forschungsinstitut für Kraftfahrwesen und Fahrzeugmotoren Stuttgart/Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart (FKFS). Each class was two and a half days, and participants were able to choose to take one, two, or all three courses. Format was non-credit graduate level seminar. Rizzoni's class took a field trip to the FKFS wind tunnel. Students in Onori's course visited FKFS' electrical charging station, where each got to drive an electric vehicle. Guezennec and Canova's group visited FKFS' new driving simulator which was inaugurated just the day before (June 25, 2012).

The program was voted a success by students.

Read more here.

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