Five Steps for Crafting a Doctoral Research Proposal in Engineering Design

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirhossein Khosrojerdi ◽  
Shabnam Rezapour ◽  
Janet K. Allen ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Verification And Validation ◽  
Research Proposal ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Electric Vehicle Charging ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
Charging Stations

Doctoral students are required to prepare and defend a research proposal. In this paper, we present five steps for doctoral students to identify the questions that are worthy of investigation and thence to develop a research plan and proposal. Our method involves five steps, namely, Step 1: Frame the problem Step 2: Develop a research plan Step 3: Verification and validation Step 4: Proposal template Step 5: Proposal outline We illustrate the method using the sustainable design of plug-in-electric vehicle charging stations as an example.

scholarly journals Energy Management System Optimization of Drug Store Electric Vehicles Charging Station Operation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6163
Author(s):  
Yongyi Huang ◽  
Atsushi Yona ◽  
Hiroshi Takahashi ◽  
Ashraf Mohamed Hemeida ◽  
Paras Mandal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
System Optimization ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Charging Station ◽  
Electric Vehicle Charging ◽  
Photovoltaic Power ◽  
Vehicle Charging ◽  
Charging Stations

Electric vehicle charging station have become an urgent need in many communities around the world, due to the increase of using electric vehicles over conventional vehicles. In addition, establishment of charging stations, and the grid impact of household photovoltaic power generation would reduce the feed-in tariff. These two factors are considered to propose setting up charging stations at convenience stores, which would enable the electric energy to be shared between locations. Charging stations could collect excess photovoltaic energy from homes and market it to electric vehicles. This article examines vehicle travel time, basic household energy demand, and the electricity consumption status of Okinawa city as a whole to model the operation of an electric vehicle charging station for a year. The entire program is optimized using MATLAB mixed integer linear programming (MILP) toolbox. The findings demonstrate that a profit could be achieved under the principle of ensuring the charging station’s stable service. Household photovoltaic power generation and electric vehicles are highly dependent on energy sharing between regions. The convenience store charging station service strategy suggested gives a solution to the future issues.

Electric vehicle charging stations in Magdeburg

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Winkler ◽  
P. Komarnicki ◽  
G. Mueller ◽  
G. Heideck ◽  
M. Heuer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Electric Vehicle Charging ◽  
Vehicle Charging ◽  
Charging Stations
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