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Integrated Use of PLM and Life Cycle Energy Analysis Software in Teaching Automobile Life Cycles

Publicated to:International Journal Of Engineering Education. 25 (5): 900-908 - 2009-11-27 25(5), DOI:

Authors: Alejo FJS; Martínez JML; Alonso FJ; Sotomayor AM

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Grupo de Inv. en Seguridad e Impacto Medioambiental de Vehículos y Transportes (GIVET). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author

Abstract

The high degree of competitiveness among companies in the automobile sector together with ever stricter regulations means that manufacturers have to produce designs that are more and more complex and demanding and need to take account of all the stages of a vehicle's life cycle and study them in depth. In this sense, due to increasing environmental awareness, it is becoming necessary to consider the energy cost of each stage of the vehicle's life cycle as part of the design process. This paper presents how both points are integrated when teaching young engineers on the Master's course in Automotive Engineering at Madrid Polytechnic University (UPM), using PLM SmarTeam software and the life cycle energy analysis program GaBi 4. This teaching is based on practical applications for a hybrid vehicle designed and constructed at the INSIA, taking energy and environmental cost as design criteria for the vehicle. © 2009 TEMPUS Publications.

Keywords
AutomobileEnergy analysisEnvironmental impactPlm

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal International Journal Of Engineering Education due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2009, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering (Miscellaneous).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Alejo FJS) and Last Author (Sotomayor AM).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Alejo FJS.