Transportation Electrification: Applications of Electric Drive Trains
The various applications of hybrid electric, plug hybrid and electric drive trains used in automobiles, ships, buses, airplanes, earth moving equipment are described in the first module. Both the advantages and disadvantages of electric drive trains and the business case for electric and hybrid-electric drive trains are discussed.
What you will learn:
- Describe how electric drive trains are used in different transportation sectors
- Summarize advantages and disadvantages of electric drive trains
- Explain building blocks of electric drive trains
- Identify different types of electric drive trains
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Who should attend: Electrical engineer, Network engineer, Data engineer, Design engineer, Hardware engineer, Security engineer, Lead engineer, Project engineer, Product engineer, Software engineer, System, Manufacturing engineer
Instructor
James Gover
Dr. James Gover, IEEE Life Fellow, is currently Professor Emeritus at Kettering University and teaches graduate courses on power semiconductors, advanced power electronics and fuel cell system integration and packaging. Dr. Gover was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kettering for fourteen years and served as Department Chair for three years. His research and teaching specialty at Kettering University was hybrid electric vehicles and the associated technologies. He was awarded the title of IEEE Fellow for his work in radiation effects.
Publication Year: 2013
ISBN: 1-4673-3221-6