Technische Universität Braunschweig; Institut für Fahrzeugtechnik

The intensive contacts to industrial companies, the extensive experimental facilities as well as the interdisciplinary working methods across institutes and disciplines help to solve challenging problems efficiently and practically. The corresponding research results are partly incorporated into the teaching and thus always ensure a modern teaching operation. In accordance with the high economic importance of the automotive industry as well as the excellent image of German automobiles, which according to current representative surveys occupies a top position worldwide, the employment opportunities for engineers with knowledge of automotive technology are also correspondingly promising and diverse: employment in research, development, production and sales in the automotive industry as well as its supplier industry, technical monitoring associations, state institutions, such as universities, ministries, the Federal Armed Forces, and municipal transport companies.  

The teaching and research activities of the Institute of Automotive Engineering focus on the fundamentals of motor vehicles. They cover the areas of design, simulation and testing that are important in development and research.

As application areas, the focus is on vehicle modules such as powertrain, transmission, chassis, body, brakes, tires. Research project:

• Virtual shift comfort optimization for ASG and automatic transmissions, simulation with hardware-in-the-loop
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• Siimulation of vertical dynamics
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• Objectification of subjective vehicle characteristics, stuttering
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• Objectification of subjective vehicle characteristics, vibration dummy
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• Objectification, shift comfort optimization for ASG and automatic transmission
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• Active control systems / vehicle dynamics simulation
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• Load collectives and testing for powertrain
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• Driver assistance systems
• Objectification of subjective vehicle, driver and route characteristics with respect to lateral dynamics
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• Load collectives and testing (chassis)
• MKS simulation for the generation of representative load spectra
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• Acoustic investigations on vehicles and components
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• Bodywork, lightweight construction