CAS Technology Potentials in Future Transport
"As a member of the MAS academic management, it is my concern to enable an objective discussion on mobility topics by conveying the scientific basics. Based on this, demonstrating modern tools for solving optimisation problems in practice is an important contribution of the MAS."
Professor Christopher Onder (ETH), MAS Academic Director
The CAS Technology Potentials provides students with a sound basis for identifying, assessing and implementing technology potentials for sustainable mobility. This includes powertrain systems, information and communication technologies and interfaces to the energy and transport system as well as methods of product optimisation and innovation.
Graduates are capable of...
- assessing optimisation and innovation potentials in powertrain and vehicle technology for passenger and freight transport.
- recognising potentials of digital and spatial information technologies and applying them to the mobility sector.
- assessing technologies and mobility systems according to economic, environmental or social criteria.
- using new technologies for sustainable, environment-friendly products, mobility services or systems
Modules
Powertrain and vehicle technology and energy carriers (3.5 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Professor Christopher Onder (ETH)
The module aims to impart a sound understanding of the current state as well as the short- and medium-term development paths in powertrain and vehicle technology for passenger and freight transport. This includes the provision of the corresponding energy carriers and the interrelation with the entire energy system. This enables participants to identify and use the potential of the technologies to solve concrete problems.
Energy carriers for future mobility (3.5 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Christian Bach (Empa)
The module covers the supply of renewable energy for future road mobility. The module deals with energy supply, distribution, processing, the transfer of energy to the vehicles (refuelling, charging) and the energetic assessment. Students learn to evaluate electricity, hydrogen as well as biogenic and synthetic fuels as energy carriers for transport.
Potentials of spatial information and communication technologies (3 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Professor Martin Raubal (ETH)
The rapid digital revolution and in particular spatial information and communication systems have a significant influence on the development of new mobility services. Participants gain a deeper understanding of the functionalities and possible applications of spatial information systems and services, and communication technologies (ICT) for use in future mobility systems and applications. This enables them to identify and specifically use the potential of spatial technologies and ICT for real problems.
Integrated Assessment of Technologies and Transport Systems (2 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Dr Christopher Mutel (PSI)
This module provides a comprehensive introduction to integrated technology assessment with regard to economic, environmental or social criteria. This includes life cycle assessment, cost assessment, risk assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis. Furthermore, the module introduces scenario analyses based on "energetic-economic models", which explicitly represent mobility and energy supply technologies. Participants learn to commission and evaluate analyses and assessments for technologies and mobility systems.
CAS thesis Technology Potentials (3 ECTS-KP)
Module responsibility: Dr Martin Streicher-Porte (ETH)
The participants work in teams on a current problem from the subject area of the CAS Technology Potentials. The aim is to identify technology potentials (hardware and software) for sustainable mobility for a selected problem area and to develop approaches for implementation in their work context.
Course language & materials: English/German