General information
Company general information:
TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE (TME) Head Office and R&D center are based near Brussels in Belgium. More than 2700 employees from more than 60 nationalities cover the entire European business of Toyota and Lexus, including R&D, product planning, quality, engineering and manufacturing operations in production plants across Europe. More than 1 million new vehicles are sold each year. TME focuses on sustainability and for Toyota, Quality is a way of life: nothing is so good that it cannot be made better, that’s why we strive for continuous improvement in everything we do.
Division information:
As part of TME R&D organization, the Powertrain Division is responsible for local development of powertrains for vehicles built in one of the TME production plants, and for planning and research of new European technologies. Latest focus points include electrification, big data and connectivity.
Your project:
Real Driving Emissions (RDE) regulation is enforcing the vehicle tailpipe emissions in real-road driving conditions; not only in standardized drive cycles. This new regulation brings significant challenges in the calibration of combustion engines.
Joining the Engine Calibration Team, you will contribute to improve the calibration process for RDE:
• Develop modeling tools to support the practical RDE calibration activities.
• In collaboration with Simulation Team, proceed to identification & modeling of driver pattern/behaviors, identification & modeling of vehicle/powertrain/engine operation.
• Learn RDE test methodology and support practical evaluation at chassis-dynamometer & testing on-road. Analyse measured data, derive conclusions and propose improvement to the toolchain.
Your profile:
• Master student with good understanding of combustion engine operation technologies.
• You have a European EEA citizenship. (not requiring a visum to work in Belgium)
• You must be a student for the entire duration of the internship
• Open personality and able to work independently in a multi-cultural business environment.
• Fluent in English (reading; writing; speaking)
• Master student (mechanical / automotive engineering),
• Experience in computer programming (Matlab/Simulink, Python) is an asset.
You have a Toyota DNA, this means you:
• wish to develop and are ready to persevere in order to reach challenging targets
• seek facts before making recommendations or decisions
• have strong planning and organizing skills
• enjoy working in a team, respecting others
• have excellent communication skills
• customer mindset
Place of employment: Belgium – 1930 Zaventem (Brussels area)
Starting date: July 2020
Duration: 6 months
Confidentiality: Some of the project content may have to be treated as confidential and therefore not shown explicitly in the internship report
