ELEC 2310 - Vehicle Experimental Testing

Credit Hours: 4.00

Objectives:
1. Apply safety rules
2. Analyze safety measures before starting any hands-on activity
3. Recite safety protocols

Outcome 2: Student will be able to set up test procedures, wire sensors, conduct experiments, and write reports

Objectives:
1. Compare electronic signals from common sensors used on vehicles
2. Compare electronic signals from common sensors used in test instruments
3. Measure and record electrical signals from sensors using a data acquisition systems such as LabView
4. Compare static and dynamic characteristics of signals
5. Utilize test instruments such as voltmeters, ammeters, pressure gages, etc.

Outcome 3. Student will be able to compare Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration test procedures, and Society of Automotive Engineers standards related to the course project

Objectives:
1. Analyze standards from different organizations and their importance
2. Apply standards to vehicle systems

Outcome 4. Students will be able to explain calibration procedures

Objectives:
1. Be able to explain the physical principal of each sensor
2. Compare electrical signal of different sensors and test instruments
3. Identify the physical principal (mass, length, time, force, energy, power) that determines the electrical output signal of a sensor

Outcome 5. Student will be able to monitor vehicle networks such as the CAN bus

Objectives:
1. Compare different bus technologies
2. Collect and analyze data from a vehicle bus using network analysis tools such as Vector hardware
3. Monitor sensor variables
4. Compute quantities communicated on the bus
5. Record and analyze experimental data