Advanced Electric Vehicle
Post-Master Certificate
Thank you for your interest in the University of Detroit Mercy Advanced Electric Vehicle Graduate Certificate. The certificate program is offered at the McNichol's Campus, a Dearborn location and fully online.
The certificate program began January 2010 and prepares automotive engineers in the unique skills needed to build the next generation of advanced electric vehicles. Apply to this program 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 teams of the automotive and defense ground vehicle industries. It is aimed at specific learning outcomes defined in direct collaboration with leaders in AEV development at Ford Motor Company. Students successful in these courses will learn to apply their engineering talents, and formal model-based design techniques, to the development of advanced electric vehicles.
Engineers in this program take courses designed by "competency teams" whose explicit purpose is to create a curriculum that is directly responsive to industry's needs and deploys the most current technologies, methods and tools emerging from universities, corporations, and national laboratories. These tools are directly applicable to the design of AEVs in particular, and complex electromechanical systems in general.
Roadmap to your AEV Graduate Certificate
Taught by a distinguished group of industry leaders and academic experts, the AEV Graduate Certificate program offers seven core and elective courses. For certificate completion, students must take the three core courses and two of the elective courses:
Core: Introduction to Advance Elective Vehicles
Core: Electric Drives/Electromechanical Energy Conversion
Core: Controls Modeling and Design for AEVs
Elective: Energy Storage Systems/Battery Technologies
Elective: Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles
Elective: Innovation and Systems Architecture for AEVs
Elective: Systems Engineering for AEVs
Accelerate you … and your company into the future
Gain real-world knowledge, best practices, skills and competencies that translate into a competitive edge in today's everchanging and technologically challenging marketplace. Change the course of your future today by enrolling in the Advanced Electric Vehicle Graduate Certificate program.
Program Outcomes
Students completing the certificate program will have the ability to:
- Apply knowledge of AEV vehicles to solve problems in AEV design and integration.
- Design, develop and use validated system models for AEV components and systems to solve problems associated with AEVs.
- Choose and integrate proper E-drives for vehicle powertrain and other applications associated with AEVs.
- Implement optimum solutions for control problems associated with AEV systems.
- Function effectively in multi-disciplinary teams and interface effectively with engineers for developing the AEV.
And, depending on the choice of electives, graduates will have the ability to:
- Design and develop optimum power storage solutions by designing and developing battery systems. This includes all aspects of power storage such as battery chemistry, packaging and layout design, thermal management, manufacturing and charging process and life-cycle management.
- Implement proper electronic solutions for power conversion and management problems associated with AEVs.
- Use techniques of innovation in AEV system design.
- Analyze, as well as design an optimum architecture for AEV systems, and engineer AEV systems.
This is a 15 credit (5 course) certificate program. Nine credits (3 courses) are required core courses, and 6 credits (2 courses) are electives which may be chosen from the list below. Students must maintain a GPA above 3.0. Grades below "C" will not advance a student towards graduation.
Required Courses (9 credit hours)
| AEV 5010 | Intro to Advanced Electric Vehicles | 3 cr. |
| AEV 5020 | Controls Modeling & Design for AEV | 3 cr. |
| AEV 5050 | E-Drives | 3 cr. |
Elective courses (choose 2 courses – 6 credit hours)
| AEV 5030 | Energy Storage | 3 cr. |
| AEV 5040 | Power Electronics | 3 cr. |
| AEV 5060 | Innovation and System Architecture | 3 cr. |
| AEV 5070 | Systems Engineering | 3 cr. |
Students wishing to specialize in a particular focal area should choose their elective courses to reflect the desired focus.
Systems Specialization
| AEV 5060 | Innovation and System Architecture | 3 cr. |
| AEV 5070 | Systems Engineering | 3 cr. |
Energy Storage and Electronics Specialization
| AEV 5030 | Energy Storage | 3 cr. |
| AEV 5040 | Power Electronics | 3 cr. |
Admissions Criteria
Admission to the program requires:
- An undergraduate degree in engineering or science or five years of relevant professional experience (in addition to permission of the program director).
- An undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or better is desired ,but is considered in the contest of the applicant's other qualifications.
Program Requirements
Scanner: In many classes in the program students are required to submit scans of handwritten homework.
Headset with Microphone: To participate in live online interactions with faculty and peers, a headset with a microphone is necessary.
MATLAB/Simulink (Student Version): Several classes in the program require students have access to a student version of MATLAB/Simulink.
NOTE: Individual courses in the program may have other software requirements.