B2401 - Powertrain Testing

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mechanical Engineering for Sustainability (cod. 5980)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student learns the basics of sustainable powertrain testing, including test facilities and testing equipment characteristics, test procedures, data analysis, modeling and control based on test data.

Course contents

Classroom activities:

  • Introduction of testing activity in Industry
  • Sensors and instrumentations for testing and monitoring of powertrains
  • Pirnciple of Electric powertrains layout
  • Modeling of Electrical behavior for a battey pack

Laboratory activities

  • Experimental characterization of lump parameter model of a simplified thermal system
  • Experimental characterization of Thermal behavior and data analysis of battery pack under typical mission profiles (charging and discharging)
  • Experimental characterization of small battery pack

Readings/Bibliography

Course and slides shared during classes and published on Virtuale

Teaching methods

Classroom activities and Laboratory activities

Assessment methods

Report of the practical activity conducted during the course and Oral discussion (in person)

Teaching tools

Slides, manuals, technical documentation shared during classes

Office hours

See the website of Giacomo Silvagni

SDGs

Affordable and clean energy Climate Action

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.