Expertise
Located in the industrial Midwest, Western Michigan University’s engineering faculty and staff have assisted the vehicle industry with applied research and technologies that have directly impacted product design, manufacturability, quality, and therefore, profitability.
WMU’s Center for Advanced Vehicle Design and Simulation (CAViDS) was established to synergize the technical competence in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences to develop innovative, numerical-simulation driven, applied research to help advance the design and analysis capability of our industry partners, while meeting the academic mission of the University. CAViDS provides a platform for collaboration between industry and academia to develop breakthrough technical solutions, which can have deep economic, social and environmental impact, while training the next generation of U.S. engineers.
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Dynamics, control and noise
Koorosh Naghshineh, Alamgir Choudhury, Jennifer Hudson, Richard Meyer, Kapseong Ro
Engine and powertrain
Parviz Merati, Bade Shrestha, Ho Sung Lee, Claudia Fajardo
Ergonomics
Tycho Fredericks, Steven Butt
Fluid and thermal management: computational and experimental
Parviz Merati, Tianshu Liu, Ho Sung Lee, Bade Shrestha, William Liou , Claudia Fajardo
Manufacturing
David Meade, John Patten
Materials
Sensors, signal processing and wireless communications
Massood Atashbar, Murali Ghantasala,
Signal processing, wireless communications and fuzzy controllers
Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Bradley Bazuin, Janos Grantner
Software development and integration
Mitchel Keil, Pavel Ikonomov, Kapseong Ro, Jun Oh, William Liou, Jorge Rodriguez
Vehicle simulators