Design and Implementation of Virtual Hybrid Electric Vehicle Simulator for Educational Purpose

This article, from authors Gene Liao and Chih-Ping Yeh of Wayne State University and James Sawyer of Macomb Community College, discusses the development of a computer-based simulation to teach students about Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) technology. As the authors state: "The tremendous capital investment, tedious and time-consuming tasks required to establish a full function of HEV laboratory are convincing evidence that the HEV curriculum is in need of a low-cost, computer-based virtual HEV simulator." The paper describes the simulator in depth. This document may be downloaded in PDF file format.