xuemei sun of Ford Motor Company

With increased concern for energy sustainability, foreign oil dependency and climate changes, new technologies are required to improve the efficiency and reduce the emission of the conventional fossil-fuel based vehicles which are propelled by internal combustion engines. This talk will discuss hybrid electric vehicles from the aspect of improving fuel efficiency. I will first discuss the efficiency loss of the conventional vehicles, describe the principle of hybrid electric vehicles to recovery and storage wasted energy, and EPA fuel economy testing. Finally some of the battery control strategies are described to make the drive safe and fun.

Biography: Felicia Sun has been a Production Engineer at Ford Motor Company since January 2010. Prior experiences included the position of senior software engineering in Continental Automotive System Inc. from 2005 to 2010, and in Motorola Company from 2000 to 2005.
Felicia received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from NJIT in 2001. She started working in Automotive Industry in Detroit, Michigan in 2000. During her first five years at Motorola, Felicia’s primary responsibilities were to design, implement and test the control strategies for battery charging and discharging in electrical vehicles, as well as the control strategies for fuel injection and spark control for internal combustion engines. Upon joining Continental Automotive System Inc., she devoted the next five years to vehicle fault code diagnostics and gateway communication. Felicia started a new venture with Ford Motor Company in 2010; she has been working on multidiscipline areas to support vehicle launch, such as defining test specifications, analyzing vehicle test data, diagnosing vehicle issues, and verifying control strategy using hardware in the loop.
Felicia’s current research interests include hybrid vehicle architecture and system interface, software control strategy, hardware electronics, and mechanical and thermo dynamics.

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