Vehicle Safety Tech & Design.

Catalog description

This course provides teacher candidates with a conceptual overview of the principles of motor vehicle engineering from a safety perspective. The course is designed to provide a broad, interdisciplinary understanding of the history, laws, institutions, and research methods that guide the approach to vehicle safety (i.e., engineering, highway safety, public health, public policy, research, data and analysis, etc.). The course includes a review of a broad selection of advances in vehicle design, construction, and equipment to minimize the occurrence and consequences of crashes. Graduate credit requirements are described in the course syllabus. If this class is taken at the 500 level, it is a graduate course and expectations for student performance are at an advanced level. Evaluation of course requirements is more rigorous than at the lower division section of this course.