About APS LABS
The Advanced Power Systems Research Center is a multidisciplinary organization that fosters large, collaborative, cutting-edge research efforts in the areas of clean, efficient, and sustainable Power Systems technologies.
The center's main objective is developing the fundamental and applied knowledge required for the next generation of low-emission, high-efficiency vehicles. The center also brings together and coordinates researchers with expertise in and a passion for current and future automotive technologies.
Although APS LABS is a physical place, you might best associate it with its mobile, expandable laboratory, which is pulled by a class 8-semi truck with a Detroit Diesel DD15 engine. This behemoth vehicle, which serves as an on-the-road school, lab, and training center truly exemplifies innovation on wheels.
Along with its research, APS LABS is both well-known and respected for offering customizable on-site and online automotive courses, in 35 system and subsystem areas, which provide people in the automotive industry with the fundamental competencies and skills they need to keep pace with technology and advance their careers. For several years now, the expert team at APS has supplied the automotive industry with resources, outreach services, training, and talent.
Short Courses
APS LABS offers short, intensive, noncredit professional development courses on a periodic basis. These courses, which are often 20 hours (2.5 days) in duration, may be offered in one or more modalities: online, in-person, or hybrid (a blend of online and in-person). The cost per person varies depending on the modality of the course.
APS LABS provides the content as well as any required equipment. The content may be delivered on-site through the APS Mobile Lab or online through the website of our professional development program.
These courses are usually purchased through MTU's Tech Shop.
Here is an incomplete list of some of their previous courses:
- Battery and High Voltage Safety
- Diesel Engine Fundamentals
- Diesel Engine Control Systems
- Electric Propulsion Systems
- Electrified Machines and Power Electronics
- Instrumentation and Experimentation
- Instrumentation and Systems
- Spark-Ignition (SI) Fundamentals
- Spark-Ignition (SI) Control Systems
- Systems Engineering
To learn more about the content and availability of these courses, please contact a member of the APS LABS instructional team below.
Alternatively, you can regularly visit the Global Campus Professional Development Store to see what courses are running.
Global Campus Professional Development Storefront
Instructors
The short courses at APS LABS are designed and taught by one or more members of a team of seasoned instructors. Together, this team has several decades of professional engineering experiences, as well as up-to-date training and skills in automotive engineering and power systems.
Jeffrey Naber
- Richard and Elizabeth Henes Endowed Professor (Energy Systems), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Director, Advanced Power Systems Research Center, Area Director, Energy-Thermo-Fluids (ETF)
- Pi Tau Sigma Faculty Advisor
- jnaber@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1938
- MEEM 1011
Jeremy Worm
- Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Research Engineer, Advanced Power Systems Research Center
- Director, Michigan Tech Mobile Lab
- jjworm@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2686
- MEEM 709
Vinicius Vinhaes
- Manager, Training and Curriculum Development for the Advanced Power Systems Research Center (APSRC)
- vbvinhae@mtu.edu
- Advanced Power Systems Research Center (APSRC)
"Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the modern economy."