First-Year Engineering Program Advanced Energy Vehicle Design Analysis Tool Reference:  AEV Lab Manual  Design Analysis Tool Grading Guidelines

First-Year Engineering Program Lab Objectives  The objectives of this lab are: 1.Become familiar with the Matlab based design analysis tool. 2.Be able to upload wind tunnel/Arduino data into the design analysis tool. 3.Conduct performance analysis of an AEV operation with the tool. 4.Be able to export plots for documentation & support.

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool  The purpose of creating and utilizing a design analysis tool is to increase productivity in the performance test phase of the project.  The project is now in the design cycle consisting of meeting four performance tests throughout the project

First-Year Engineering Program AEV Project Objective (Problem Definition) INITIAL CONCEPTS (Brainstorming) EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ANALYZE DESIGN DECISION RESEARCH COMPARE FINAL DESIGN Present AEV Design PT 1 PT 2 PT 3 PT 4 (System Analysis)(Programming)

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool - Features  Let’s take a quick look at the design analysis tool.

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool - Features Two Tabs

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool - Features Propulsion Efficiencies (System Analysis 3)

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool - Features Performance Analysis (System Analysis 1 & 2)

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool - Features Status bar. Informs you of what the program is doing

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool - Features File Menu: Loading & Saving Data

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool - Features Tools Menu: Downloading data from the Arduino motor controller & exporting figures for documentation & reports

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool – Propulsion Efficiencies  Design Analysis Tool – Propulsion and System Efficiency Design Analysis Tool – Propulsion and System Efficiency

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool – Performance Analysis  Design Analysis Tool – Performance Analysis Design Analysis Tool – Performance Analysis

First-Year Engineering Program Design Analysis Tool Lab Activity  Follow Grading Guidelines  Follow AEV Lab Manual  Individual:  Install the AEV Analysis Tool App.  Load sample wind tunnel data and export graphs.  Load sample Arduino EEProm data and export graphs.