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ME-4554: Advanced Technology for Motor Vehicles

Description: Energy use and environmental issues for motor vehicles: Emissions standards, fleet requirements, dynamometer testing, fuel economy, and vehicle performance. Alternative fuel vehicles: Characteristics and infrastructure of fuels, batteries, electric vehicles, and hybrid electric vehicles. Vehicle design: Modeling and simulation of vehicle energy use and performance, component sizing. Fuel cells for transportation. Heavy-duty vehicles and busses. Low mass vehicles and future vehicle technology.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: ME-2134

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 6

Average GPA: 3.72 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 54.82%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 3.99%

Scott T Huxtable202483.1%16.3%0.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.772
Douglas J Nelson202274.9%16.7%0.7%0.0%1.7%6.0%3.704

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Fall 2019Fall 2020Fall 2021Fall 2022Fall 2023Fall 2024Term050% W