BizJournals.ComVolkswagen of America will donate $5.75 million to Stanford University to create the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL), on the Stanford University campus, and a new program for supporting automotive teaching and research. The VAIL and corresponding CarLab research and teaching program housed at VAIL, will help to accelerate automotive-related research on campus by increasing the . . . → Read More: VW to Fund Auto Lab at Stanford
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Agilent will license certain automotive-network products from Elektrobit to create an integrated design and test toolset for software and test engineers. Agilent also introduced a strengthened suite of FlexRay test product offerings. This partnership now extends Agilent’s FlexRay test offering with FlexRay protocol analysis products. EB and Agilent will share FlexRay technology and software components, assuring . . . → Read More: Agilent, Elektrobit Team to Provide FlexRay Tools It occurs to me that it would be a good thing to be aware of what’s going on on the consumer side of things. That is, engineers should know how consumer organizations are testing their products and correlate those tests to the tests they run. With that in mind, I’ve just come across two articles that discuss . . . → Read More: Make a Link Between Engineering Tests and Consumer Tests Engine Testing: Theory and Practice by A.J. Martyr and M.A. Plint has been updated. This new edition—the third—includes updated info on analysis and measurement, combustion processes, data acquisition, dynomometer deployment, exhaust emissions, oil and fuel testing, and system integration. It is available from the SAE for $99.95 ($79.96 for . . . → Read More: Engine Test Book Updated Defense News has recently posted an article on testing autonomous navigation systems. The article, “U.S. Army Tests TARDEC Autonomous Navigation System,” describes the tests run on a 17-kilometer test course featuring varied terrain with some gravel and off-road areas, 90-degree turns, blind turns, which are unexpected changes in direction, and some small hills. The article notes, The . . . → Read More: Army Tests Driver-less Nav System |
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