Electric Vehicle Circuit and Electrical System Senior Lab Project

摘要

As part of a multidisciplinary team, electrical engineering students worked with computer and mechanical engineering students to create a small-scale electric vehicle. The major tasks of the team were design and performance prediction; fabrication of the vehicle, control circuits, and computer data acquisition board; system integration and testing; racing the vehicles against other teams; and comparing performance data to predictions. This paper will discuss the electrical engineering students' design efforts for the project. The project enhanced student learning and provided a practical approach to multidisciplinary teamwork. In addition to the design, build, and test tasks typical of the engineering design process, electrical engineering students learned about Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and how to design circuits to provide for safe outcomes when portions of the system fail. The paper provides an overview of project; describes the learning objectives, as related to the electrical engineering aspects of the project; describes the FMEA process; and includes detailed descriptions of the circuits in the appendix.