Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

• To prepare the graduates with strong foundation in science and engineering for successful careers in core mechanical and interdisciplinary industries, higher education and research.
• To prepare graduates who can become entrepreneur/ innovators to design and develop system/ process/ product/ service to address social and industrial challenges.
• To prepare graduates with leadership qualities, strong communication skills, professional and ethical values.
• To prepare lifelong learners graduates to excel in their professional career as well as to pursue higher education.

 

Program Outcomes (POs)

• Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
• Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
• Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
• Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
• Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modelling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
• The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
• Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
• Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
• Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
• Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with the society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
• Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
• Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.

 

Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs)

• To analyze the problems and create solution by applying engineering knowledge with a multidisciplinary approach in the area of vehicle function, vehicle design and vehicle performance.
• To analyze, interpret and provide solutions for the technical challenges faced by the Automobile Industry using engineering software/ tools.
• To work effectively in a team to address complex issues by engaging in lifelong learning and following ethical and environmental practices.

 

About Automobile Engineering

Automobile Engineering encompasses almost all facets of technologies that are currently developed. More importantly, the domain paves way for the development of never-thought-of technologies. The current era is seeing a revolution in the way we think about Automobiles. There have been many positive disruptions in the domain viz. the use of non-conventional power source for vehicle propulsion, innovative transmission technologies, active suspensions, active aerodynamics and technologies for unprecedented safety, to name a few. With the world turning towards connected devices and technologies of Industry 4.0, the scope of integrating these technologies in the domain of Automobile Engineering is immense. The ‘Bachelor of Technology in Automobile Engineering’ at PDEU has been commenced with a similar motivation to impart competencies in the domain of Automobile Engineering and make the aspirants capable of future technology development.

Key Features:

• Contemporary course curriculum.
• A robust and active framework for course curriculum vetting and updating. The framework takes the inputs from leading Industry personnel and educationalists.
• An established framework of the University helps in providing the best resources to the students.
• Modern Laboratory facilities.
• Availability of entire vehicle, exotic Engine-transmission assembly and the like for dissection purposes.

Key Connect:

• PDEU is a key stakeholder of 'International Automobile Centre of Excellence' which has been formed in collaboration of Government of Gujarat and Maruti to impart training for Automotive technologies.
• PDEU has been connected with many Automobile companies like Ford Motors, Tata Motors, BMW India and the like.
• Student teams of PDEU have successfully been participating in 'Vehicle Design and Development' competitions like BAJA-SAEINDIA, SUPRA-SAEINDIA and many others.
• Student team of PDEU also participates internationally in 'Shell Eco-Marathon, Asia' by developing an ultra-efficient electric vehicle.

 

Vision & Mission

Vision

To be recognized globally for excellence in education, applied research and training in the field of Automobile Engineering through innovation of high Social impact and to prepare youth for tomorrow.

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Mission

• To impart excellent education to build capacity of students and enhancing their skills in the domain of energy and engineering to make them globally competitive.
• Seek to nurture students of extraordinary motivation and ability and prepare them for life-long learning and leadership in an increasingly knowledge driven world.
• To develop state of art research facility and centre of excellence to provide environment for collaborative research and skill development.
• To establish association with industry, academic institutes and research centres for collaborative research and consultancy work.
• To impart excellent education through fundamental knowledge, research and technologies

 

Mission Element	Mission Component
M1	Globally Competitive (energy and engineering)
M2	Life-long Learning
M3	Skill Development
M4	Industry-Institute Interaction
M5	Excellent Education

 

Objective

Objectives of Automobile engineering department are: Graduate will

• Cater to the needs of Indian as well as multinational industries.
• Be competent with strong technological background to analyze data, formulate and undertake industrial problems and obtain viable solutions
• Make successful career in industry/ research/ higher Studies.
• Be life-long learning and should be able to work on multi-disciplinary projects.
• Be Competent for effective communication, in management and in professional skills and ethics

 

 

 

Head of Department

 

 

 

 

Contact

Department of Automobile Engineering,
School of Technology,
Pandit Deendayal Energy University
Raisan, Gandhinagar - 392007

 

Course Curriculum

Automobile Engineering

UG Automobile Engineering Syllabus - R1 - (Sem-1 to Sem-2)

UG Automobile Engineering Syllabus - R1 - (Sem-3 to Sem-8)

 

Course Structure

UG Automobile Engineering Course Structure (Sem-1 to Sem-2)

UG Automobile Engineering Course Structure (Sem-3 to Sem-8)

 

Flow Chart for Course

Flow Chart for UG Course

B.Tech Automobile Engineering UG Course »

 

Laboratory

• Siemens Centre of Excellence

  
  

• List of Laboratory:

  Semester I	Semester II
  Engineering Chemistry - Lab Elements of Mechanical Engineering - Lab Basic Electronics - Lab Engineering Graphics - Lab Programming with C - Lab	Elements of Civil Engineering & Solid Mechanics - Lab Elements of Electrical Engineering - Lab Engineering Physics - Lab Workshop Practice Fundamentals of Python Programming Communication Skills - I

   

  Semester III	Semester IV
  Thermodynamics & Fluid Flow - Lab. Strength of Material - Lab. Mechanical Measurements & Metrology - Lab. Geometric Modeling - Lab. Communication Skills - II	Theory of Machines - Lab. Materials Technology - Lab. Automotive Chassis & Components - Lab. Industry 4.0 - Lab.

   

  Semester V	Semester VI
  Manufacturing Technology - Lab. Design of Machines Elements - Lab. Automotive Power Train Systems - Lab. Communication Skills - III	Automotive Transmission - Lab. Vehicle Dynamics - Lab. Finite Element Analysis - Lab. Automotive Design - Lab.

   

  Semester VII
  Automotive Electricals & Electronics - Lab. Vehicle Safety - Lab. Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing - Lab. Advanced Manufacturing Technology - Lab. Heat and Mass Transfer - Lab. Machine Design - Lab. Vehicle Testing & Automotive Standards - Lab

   

• Major Equipment's of Automobile Laboratory

  
  

• iACE

 

Faculty

 

 

 

Staff

• Mr. Alpesh Rajput
• Mr. Arvind Makwana
• Mr. Ashokkumar Chavda
• Mr. Jayesh Panchal
• Mr. Mehul Bhalu
• Mr. Piyushkuma rChaudhari
• Mr. Trushar Prajapati
• Mr. Umang Soni

 

 

 

Society Activities

Shell Eco-Marathon

Shell Eco-marathon is a unique global programme, for science, technology, and engineering students to design and build ultra-energy-efficient cars, and then take them out on the track in competition. Since 1985, the competition has challenged student teams across the globe to design, build and drive the most energy-efficient cars which have resulted in students coming up with an entirely new breed of ‘Hyper-Efficient’ cars. It is one of the world’s leading energy efficiency competitions which takes place in three different continents of the world namely, Asia, America, and Europe.

The Shell Eco-Marathon Challenger events are held in 7 countries of the Eurasian continent which include India, China, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, France, and The Netherlands.

India has hosted the competition twice. In 2018, the competition was held at the Madras Motor Race Track in Chennai and in 2019, for the first time ever globally, the competition was held on a Shell site at the Shell Technology Centre at Bangalore on a purpose-built track.

Team Kaizen

Team Kaizen from PDEU has been consistently participating in the Shell Eco-Marathon competition from the year 2015. The team has come a long way in building their prototype vehicles and improvising upon it year after year.

This year, the team participated in the #MakeTheFuture Challenger event held under the flagship of the Shell Eco-Marathon in Bangalore from 19th to 22nd November 2019 and drove their prototype on the first-ever purpose-built track by Shell at Shell Technology Centre.

Team Kaizen with their prototype car ‘Nakshatra’ ranked 2nd amongst teams from all over India by achieving an efficiency of 198.4 km/kWh in the Battery-Electric Prototype category.

The team comprises of 29 undergraduate students from Mechanical as well as Electrical engineering discipline, who have worked endlessly in designing, manufacturing and testing the battery-electric prototype vehicle, finally giving it an amazing aesthetic aerodynamic design, reducing its weight, enhancing its electrical circuitry sophistication and adding kilometres in their efficiency parameters.

The team works under the zealous and indispensable guidance of Dr. Amit V. Sant and Dr. Pankaj Sahlot.

For more information visit:www.teamkaizenindia.com
And follow on https:www.instagram.com/teamkaizenindia/

Team Kaizen 2020
Sr. No.	Roll. No.	Name	Department Worked
1	17BME088	Rutvik Ghiya	Design
2	17BME085	Piyush Rathi	Vehicle Dynamics and Analysis
3	17BEE043	Dhwanil Mody	Powertrain & BMS
4	17BEE066	Piyush Bansal	Motor & Motor Controller Department
5	16BME112	Sumit Singh	Brakes and Wheels
6	16BEE075	Krushnesh Patel	Motor & Motor Controller Department
7	17BME044	Maanvendra Singh	Steering
8	17BEE076	Ritik Sharma	Sensors & Data Acquisition
9	17BEE094	Dhruvkumar Thakkar	Sensors & Data Acquisition
10	17BEE031	Karan Doshi	Motor & Motor Controller Department
11	17BEE048	Ojaswini Sharma	Motor & Motor Controller Department
12	18BME028	Harshil Pancholi	Brakes and Wheels
13	18BME066	Neh Pandya	Brakes and Wheels
14	18BME055	Mihir Raval	Steering
15	18BME059	Mirang Dabhi	Vehicle Dynamics and Analysis
16	18BEE079	Priyanshi Butani	Powertrain & BMS
17	18BEE092	Sakshi	Motor & Motor Controller Department
18	18BEE073	Pranav Pushkar	Motor & Motor Controller Department
19	18BEE104	Trisha H Parekh	Motor & Motor Controller Department
20	18ICT068	Mili Mehta	Motor & Motor Controller Department
21	18BEE002	Abhishek Rawal	Sensors & Data Acquisition
22	19BME081	Neel Patel	Steering
23	19BME032	Harsh Sharma	Design
24	19BEE091	Vivek Singh	Sensors & Data Acquisition
25	19BEE041	Kunal Jha	Powertrain & BMS
26	19BEE057	Raghav Sodani	Sponsorship
27	19BEE002	Achyut	Sponsorship
28	19BCP083	Mustafa Africawala	Sponsorship
29	19BEE059	Dhruv Ribbonwala	Sponsorship

Vehicle Information
Sr. No.	Type	Details
1	Name	Nakshatra
2	Category	Battery Electric
3	Total Weight	48 kg
4	Body Material	Carbon fiber
5	Drag Coefficient	0.0456
6	Steering	Ackermann Geometry
7	Tire’s CRR	0.004-0.005

Performance
Sr. No.	Event	Result
1	Shell Eco-Marathon India 2019	Cleared Technical Inspection; Efficiency: 198.4 km/kWh 2nd in India
2	Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2019	Cleared Technical Inspection; Efficiency: 122.8 km/kWh 12th in Asia and 3rd in India
3	Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2017	Cleared Technical Inspection; Efficiency: 81 km/kWh 16th in Asia and 2nd in India

 

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M BAJA

M-BAJA is an intercollegiate design competition started in 2007 sponsored by Mahindra & Mahindra and SAEINDIA and hosted by NATRiP, Indore and IIT Ropar. The main objective of the BAJASAEINDIA is to make engineering students’ design and fabricate a prototype of a rugged single seated off-road vehicle intended for sale to a non-professional, weekend off-road enthusiast considering the terrain across INDIA. The evaluation process for the BAJA SAEINDIA is a twofold process and students have to clear the Virtual Baja preliminary round before they start manufacturing their buggy’s for the main events.

The teams are judged on six main parameters in the Virtual BAJA event which are – their knowledge of the rule book, the design of the vehicle, the project plan, the design methodology and the design evaluation plan.

The evaluation process in the main event is a different ball game altogether and the students finally got to showcase their finished buggy’s to the judges. In the static tests the buggy’s are evaluation on various factors such as cost, aesthetics and the quality of the fabrication. There are also many dynamic tests such as acceleration. Braking, maneuverability over all terrain and a hill climb test. But none of these tests are more gruelling than the endurance race where the drivers and buggy’s are pushed to their limits till a winner emerges.

Team CZAR
The team has been participating in the competition since the past six years and was the first team from Gujarat to break into Top 10 teams in the nation, which was then followed by the team being ranked 1st in the Virtual BAJA from amongst 400 teams from around the nation the past season. The team participated in the event for the seventh time this year, and their buggy was named as the CZR04. A total of 22 students took part in the team and worked for a year to design, manufacture and test the ATV under the mentorship of Mr. Rahul Deharkar and Dr. Vivek Patel.

The team was able to compete in all the dynamic events which resulted in the team finishing 3rd in Gujarat, 16th in the Suspension and Traction event, 18th in Rock Crawl event and 46th Overall in the nation from amongst 120 teams present at the event. Also, the team secured 25th position in the cost presentation.

Team Information
Sr. No.	Roll. No.	Name	Department Worked
1	16BME021	Devam Patel	Design
2	16BME085	Rohit Iyer	Analysis
3	16BME055	Neemish Tejaswi	Analysis
4	16BME038	Raj Jobanputra	Powertrain
5	16BME039	Maulik Kanakhara	Brakes
6	16BME041	Kirtesh Patel	Suspension
7	16BME036	Urjit Hudka	Suspension
8	16BME145	Sachin Shah	Powertrain
9	16BME078	Donald Rachhadiya	Steering
10	16BIE010	Arrown Dalsaniya	Steering
11	17BCP006	Apoorva Panchal	Analysis
12	17BME022	Dev Shah	Design
13	17BME069	Harshit Patel	Powertrain
14	17BME095	Hrithik Shah	Brakes
15	17BME090	Jeetsinh Sarvaiya	Suspension
16	16BME029	Mihir Fofaria	Steering
17	17BME058	Pallav Gupta	Suspension
18	17BME077	Parth Patel	Powertrain
19	16BME076	Pratik Shah	Powertrain
20	17BME105	Sopan Kane	Steering
21	17BME089	Samarth Acharya	Analysis
22	16BME080	Raj Bhalodiya	Design

 

Vehicle Information
Sr. No.	Type	Details
1	Roll Cage	Made from AISI 4130
2	Suspension	Fox Air Shock absorbers used
3	Steering	Ackerman Geometry with custom rack and pinion
4	Wheels	23 X 7 X 10 inches with 56mm offset
5	Power Train	CVTech CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission)
6	Engine	Briggs & Stratton Engine
7	ATV Dimensions	80 X 56 X 60 (L X B X H)

 

Event Information
Sr. No.	Type	Details & Ranking
1	Virtual	Cleared with AIR 1
2	Technical Inspection	Cleared
3	Dynamic event	Cleared
4	Static event	Cleared
5	Endurance	Cleared

 

 

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E BAJA

E-BAJA is an intercollegiate design competition. Team of 25 students need to design and build electric powered ATV that has Traction motor of 48V with fully automatic transmission having gear ratio of 12 and 160 Ah of battery pack. Considering the vision and road-map of automobile 2020, eBAJA SAEINDIA is a step ahead in gradual liberalization of the automobile sector in India. It is the strong approach towards shaping the future direction of auto industry so as to promote and achieve sustainable growth. This was a new initiative introduced in 2014 on the counsel of former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, in order to promote greener mobility. All entries in this category run on rechargeable lithium ion batteries. While there isn’t any specification on where students must source their powertrains from for this competition, most teams usually use a Mahindra Reva (now Mahindra Electric) engine for their cars. eBAJA is amongst the most significant inventive in India. It is the first of its kind competition throughout the world. Taking up the initiative Mahindra Reva is providing strong upfront and proactive support to all teams in means of providing power train kits and onsite technical assistance. They will provide the kit to the teams with some subsidized rates.

Team Sovereign
PDEU participated in the E BAJA event for the second time in year 2019. This team was comprised of mechanical and electrical undergraduate students. A total of 24 students took part in the team and worked for a year to design, manufacture and test the electrical ATV. Mr Rahul Deharkar and Mr. Ravi Botta were the advisors for the team.

Team Information
Sr. No.	Roll. No.	Name	Department Worked
1	15BEE081	Shishir Raghava	Powertrain
2	15BME051	Bhargavi Korot	Brakes
3	15BME096	Sanket Patel	Design & Analysis
4	15BME080	Jalp Patel	Suspension
5	16BEE096	Saptarshi Pan	Electrical & Electronics
6	16BEE106	Vaikunth Patel	Powertrain
7	16BEE108	Vedant Shetty	Electrical & Electronics
8	16BEE016	Tarun Chopra	Powertrain
9	16BIE018	Karan Shah	Steering
10	16BIE036	Sunny Prajapati	Brakes
11	16BME134	Ishaan Patwari	Design & Analysis
12	16BME137	Nikhil Paravila	Suspension
13	16BME135	Kirtipalsinh Parmar	Design & Analysis
14	16BME142	Viraj Purohit	Suspension
15	16BME117	Jitarth Trivedi	Steering
16	17BME042	Mann Shah	Suspension
17	17BME013	Raj Chokshi	Design & Analysis
18	17BME040	Pritesh Kiri	Steering
19	17BME099	Vrund Shah	Suspension
20	17BME051	Mohit Patel	Brakes
21	17BME032	Hetul Shah	Steering
22	17BME031	Harshit Jobanputra	Design & Analysis
23	17BEE031	Karan Doshi	Electrical & Electronics
24	17BEE005	Ankit Bandyopadhyay	Electrical & Electronics

 

Vehicle Information
Sr. No.	Type	Details
1	Roll Cage	Made from AISI 4130, Total weight: 230 kgs
2	Suspension	Customised progressive stiffness spring dampers
3	Steering	Ackerman Geometry with Rack and Pinion Arrangement
4	Wheels	23 X 7 X 10 inches with 56mm offset
5	Power Train	Tractive System coupled with Motor Controller and 48V DC Battery
6	Engine	BLDC Motor with inbuilt gearbox
7	ATV Dimensions	85 X 55 X 57 inches (length, width, and height resp.)

 

Event Information
Sr. No.	Type	Details & Ranking
1	Overall	AIR 12th
2	Design Evaluation	AIR 3rd
3	Virtual	AIR 9th
4	Technical Inspection	Cleared
5	Endurance	AIR 12th

 

 

 

Schedule

Sr. No.	Date of Event/ Activity	Name of Event/ Activity
1	16th and 23rd November 2021	Short-Term programs for Hands-On Exposure to various Automobile Engineering and allied technologies, for Sem-3 B. Tech. Automobile Engineering students at iACE, Gandhinagar Module-2: Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (4 hours) on (Tuesdays)
2	10th, 17th and 24th November 2021	Short-Term programs for Hands-On Exposure to various Automobile Engineering and allied technologies, for Sem-3 B. Tech. Automobile Engineering students at iACE, Gandhinagar Module-1: Paint Shop (9 hours) on (Wednesdays)

 

 

 

Visiting Faculty

 

Students

• B.Tech Students - Batch 2021 (AUTO)
• B.Tech Students - Batch 2020 (AUTO)

 

 

Some Automobile Companies in Gujarat

Ford Motors	https://www.india.ford.com/about-ford/corporate/manufacturing/
Suzuki Motor Gujarat Pvt. Ltd.	https://www.globalsuzuki.com/corporate/productionbase/overseas/asia.html
Tata Motors	https://www.tatamotors.com/about-us/facilities/
MG Motors	https://www.mgmotor.co.in/contact-us
Atul Auto	https://atulauto.co.in/contact-us.aspx
Honda Two wheelers	https://www.honda2wheelersindia.com/about-us/factory