When one speaks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at least in the latitudes of POWERTRAIN International, one’s thoughts fly to the proselytizing work pro-internal combustion engine by Peter Kelly Senecal.  Remember his catchphrase: ‘hug your engine’? Quoting Wikipedia, “mechanical engineer, academic and author, is also an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.”

It will happen October 8-10, 2024 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

And we start right here, in the Mid West of the United States, a land of well-known mechanical expertise, where the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposes a course on Modern Powertrain System Controls. The irruption of electronics has radically changed the approach to handling internal combustion engines. Emission stages, first in the USA and the European Union, and later on a global scale, have pushed the use of ECUs on the accelerator. A course for powertrain engineers and technicians, engineering managers, project managers and senior engineering leaders. At the Pyle Center they will provide an overview of the design and development of these systems including hardware, software, and control theory. It discusses system-level functional and physical architectures at all levels of the powertrain system, control theory basics, system, subsystem, and component control and diagnostics design, including an overview of functional safety and cybersecurity issues. Finally, the course presents a brief review of typical powertrain controls development processes.

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Who are the lecturers?

Erick Oberstar

Erick Oberstar is a Program Director with InterPro and has over 27 years of engineering and entrepreneurial experiences. Blake Suhre is Program Director, Power Engineering in Interdisciplinary Professional Programs (InterPro) at UW-Madison.

If you want to know more, click HERE.

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