Automotive Industry and Regulations

Objectives

Currently automotive industry is facing several important challenges. Nobody knows the automotive landscape in the next 10 years and surely automotive mobility will be reinvented, and engineers will face an authentic revolution in the next years.

New topics such as connectivity, autonomous driving, shared mobility and electric vehicle will become increasingly important. The technologies required for this do not exist in the production landscape of the automotive industry, and competencies in these areas are largely lacking.

Automotive regulations are continuously changing due to new technologies, new trends and new topics. In order to understand what is behind current directives, regulations and homologation procedures is important to know what are the current and new products that automotive industry is developing to achieve the technical requirements for active and passive safety, environmental standards for electric vehicles and cybersecurity.

Main targets for this course are:

• To understand and to know in a deep way the car products that currently exist and the new ones to be developed for the autonomous driving and the car safety:
  • Passive and active safety components (e.g. anti-lock braking system, ESC, ABS, airbag, eCall)
  • Software-defined vehicle
  • ADAS platform (advanced driver-assistance systems)
  • Autonomous driving
  • Cybersecurity in vehicle
• To have an overview about all regulations across the vehicle.
• To know about active and passive safety regulations (EURO-NCAP).
• Understand the new regulations for cybersecurity in vehicle.
• Understand the emission regulations.
• To know about vehicle homologation process.

Learning outcomes

• LO1. Knows, analyses and applies the market economy, the legal and organisational structure of the company.
• LO2. Knows the process for start-up of companies creation.
• LO3. Knows, analyses and applies the management of technological innovation and product concept.
• LO4. Knows and applies the analysis of market opportunities, architecture and product optimisation.
• LO5. Knows, analyses and applies accounting and profitability analysis.
• LO6. Identifies and uses the terminology, notation and methods of business management.
• LO7. Propose and solves problems in a team and critically analyses the results obtained.
• LO8. Apply his/her knowledge, understanding and his/her problem-solving skills in complex or professional and specialised work environments that requires the use of creative and innovative ideas.
• LO9. It develops satisfactorily in virtual interaction contexts through the use of ICT.
• LO10. Shows an attitude of motivation and commitment to personal and professional improvement

Competencies

General skills

• Desire to take part in lifelong learning, innovate, create value and acquire new knowledge.
• Endeavour to reconcile personal independence and initiative with teamwork in multidisciplinary activities.

Specific skills

• Understand the concept of enterprise and its institutional, legal and economic framework, and use resources for organisation, management and quality management of companies; know about organisational structure and functions of an engineering project office, and know how to use techniques to organise, manage and lead projects.

Basic skills

• Students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have competencies typically demonstrated through drafting and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.
• Students can communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialists and non-specialists.
• Students have demonstrated knowledge and understanding in a field of study that builds on general secondary education with the support of advanced textbooks and knowledge of the latest advances in this field of study.

Core skills

• Be a critical thinker before knowledge in all its dimensions. Show intellectual, cultural and scientific curiosity and a commitment to professional rigour and quality.
• Become the protagonist of one's own learning process in order to achieve personal and professional growth and acquire all-round training for living and learning in a context of respect for linguistic, social, cultural, gender and economic diversity.
• Display professional skills in complex multidisciplinary contexts, working in networked teams, whether face-to-face or online, through use of information and communication technology.

Content

Section 1. Current automotive landscape and disruptive trends

• Automotive industry (current and future situation)
• Disruptive trends in automotive industry
• Global mobility trends
• New mobility services: connected, autonomous, mobility, electrified

Section 2. Active and passive safety

• Active safety systems
• Passive safety systems
• ADAS platform (advanced driver-assistance systems)
• Cybersecurity in vehicles
• Global automotive safety regulations

Section 3. Cybersecurity in vehicles

• Cybersecurity in vehicles
• Cybersecurity regulations
• Safety and security

Section 4. New car assessment program (NCAP)

• NCAP deep dive
• Euro NCAP protocols
• What is new in NCAP program

Section 5. Automotive regulations and homologations

• Directives, regulations and homologation procedures
• Regulations Vehicle-I (exterior and interior safety, wheel covers, underrun protectors, pedestrian safety)
• Regulations Vehicle-II (lighting, noise, vibration, EMC)
• Environmental regulations (Euro norms, new engine and vehicle emissions)
• Vehicle homologation process

Evaluation

• Continuous assessment (30%)
  Assignments 1, 2 and 3: 10% each (total of 30%)
• Final exam (or recovering exam) (40%)
• Project in accordance to ABP rules (30%)
  This project will be assessed in regards to internal "Grau en Enginyeria de l'Automoció" regulation. Check for the document.
  Not recoverable mark. Individual and working group assessment.

Important note

Despite the fact that mathematically and due to the weighting described a global mark of 5 or higher is obtained, a student who does not obtain a mark equal to or greater than 4 points in both the final and the recovery exam, will be considered that the subject has not been exceeded.

Methodology

Class attendance + ABP + final exam

Bibliography

Key references

• ACEA (2023). Automobile Industry Pocket Guide 2022-2023. Retrieved from https://www.acea.auto/files/ACEA_Pocket_Guide_2022-2023.pdf
• Hennelly, Patrick, Graham, Gary (2017). Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry: Concepts, Theories and Applications. ISBN: 9780749498931 / 9780749484408.
• Seiffert, Ulrich (2003). Automotive Safety Handbook. ISBN: 9780768017984.
• Stadler, Rupert, Brenner, Walter, Hermann, Andreas (2018). Autonomous Driving: How the Driverless Revolution will Change the World. ISBN: 9781787432680 / 9781787148338 / 9781787148345.

Further reading

Teachers will provide complementary bibliography and compulsory reading throughout the course via the Virtual Campus.