Huei Peng

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Director, US-China Clean Energy Research Center-Clean Vehicle Consortium

Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
G036 Lay Automotive Laboratory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2133 USA
(734) 936-0352
E-mail: hpeng@umich.edu

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Degrees Earned

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1992

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1988

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1984

Prior Positions

Executive Director, Michigan Interdisciplinary and Professional Engineering, 2007-2011

Director, Automotive Engineering Program, 2002-2007

Research Interests

Adaptive and Optimal Controls

Vehicle active Safety systems, driver models, design/analysis/evaluation of vehicle chassis control systems.

Advanced powertrain modeling and control, including hybrid vehicles and robotic vehicles.

Research Projects Highlight of past and current research projects

Publication List

Research Group Members

Current Graduate Students

o Chiao-Ting Li-Analysis of PHEV and renewable energy integration on microgrid or regular electric grid

o William Smith-Terramechanics of wheeled small robots

o Byung-Joo Kim- Vehicle Stability Control of Heading Angle and Lateral Deviation to Mitigate Secondary Collisions

o Tianyou Guo-Terramechanics of tracked small robots

o Ding Zhao-Improved vehicle active safety through GPS

o Xiaowu Zhang-Configuration, sizing and control of power split hybrid vehicles

o Ziheng Pan-Power split hybrid powertrain of hydraulic hybrid vehicles

o Steve Karamihas-Measurement and interpretation of longitudinal road profile

o Caihao Wang-Techniques to Identify State of Health and State of Charge of Li-Ion Batteries

Alumni from this group

o Mr. Paul Bowles (Ford Motor Co.)

o Mr. Dan Eisele (Ford Motor Co.)

o Mr. Jekee Lee (Hyundai Motor Company)

o Dr. Chia-Shang Liu (General Motors)

o Dr. Matthew Ma (General Motors)

o Mr. Ryan Strathearn (Opti-forms)

o Prof. Supavut Chantranuwathana (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

o Prof. Bo-Chiuan Chen (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)

o Mr. Kazuya Kitajima (Metropolitan Expressway Public Corporation)

o Dr. Chi-Ying Liang (System Technology Inc.)

o Mr. Charbel Assaf (BMW)

o Dr. Lawrence A. Mianzo (General Dynamic, Robotics)

o Dr. Polat Sendur (Ford--Turkey)

o Mr. Justin Shriver (Mathworks)

o Dr. Ali Yigit Ungoren (Ford Otosan--Turkey)

o Prof. Jay Tawee Pukrushpan (Kasetsart University, Thailand)

o Dr. Xiaoming Shen (TRW, China)

o Dr. Chan-Chiao Lin (General Motors)

o Prof. Kangwon (Wayne) Lee (Korea Polytechnic University)

o Prof. Ardalan Vahidi (Clemson University)

o Prof. Dongmei Chen (University of Texas, Austin)

o Dr. Dae-Kyun Kim (General Motors)

o Dr. Min Joong Kim (General Motors)

o Dr. Jinming Liu (General Motors)

o Dr. Ed Tate (Exa Corporation)

o Dr. Jing Zhou (General Motors)

o Dr. Youseok Kou (Chrysler)

o Professor Yongsong Chen (Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)

o Dr. Seenumani, Gayathri (General Electric)

o Prof. Dongsuk Kum (KAIST, South Korea)

o Dr. Sean Yang (Ford Motor Company)

o Dr. Changsun Ahn (KIMM, South Korea)

o Dr. Rachael Bis (NASA Langley)

o Mr. Zhengzong Jia (NAME department of University of Michigan)

o Dr. Jong-Hwa Yong (TRW)

Teaching

- ME360 Modeling, Analysis and Control of Dynamic Systems, Fall 1995, 1996, Winter 2000, Fall 2006

- ME395, Mechanical Engineering Labs I, Winter 1998

- ME461 Automatic Control, Fall 1995, 1999

- ME495 Senior ME Labs, Winter 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and Fall 1999, 2008

- ME542 Vehicle Dynamics, Fall 1996, Winter 1999, 2002, 2011, 2013

- ME561 Digital Control, Winter 1994, 2003, Fall 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012

- ME566 Modeling, Analysis and Control of Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Winter 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

- ME568 Vehicle Control Systems, Winter 1995, 1996, 1997, Fall 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2009

- EECS510 Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Topics, Winter 1997

- AUTO501 Integrated Vehicle Systems Design, Winter 2005, Fall 2005, Fall 2006

- AUTO563 Modeling and Control of Automatic Transmissions, SS2004, Winter 2006, 2007, 2009

- AUTO599 Analysis and Control of Alternative Power-trains, Winter 2008, 2009

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last updated July 21, 2012/hpeng@umich.edu