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Professionals in the automotive industry, teachers at Vocational Education and Training institutions (VETs), and training and consulting organizations from all over Europe developed a curriculum of basic skills needed to assume modern Automotive Engineering job roles. Based on this curriculum, defined in the form of two skill sets, training materials, as well as a text book and exercise book have been authored. For VETs and industry pilot trainings were organized.
The training not only prepares automotive students for their future jobs in the automotive industry but also enables professionals in the automotive industry to teach their newly graduated engineering employees in specific and fundamental knowledge and skills that form the basis of the growing variety of engineering job roles in the automotive industry. This article describes the experiences so far and looks ahead to the near future. The proposed Automotive Engineering curriculum provides a value-added springboard for engineers to assume engineering job roles in the modern automotive industry.
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The “Automotive Engineer” project is financially supported by the European Commission in the Erasmus+ Programme under the project number 2014-1-NL01-KA200-001189. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The authors want to thank all the involved industry partners from Austria, Germany, France, Spain, and the Netherlands for their valuable contributions so far.
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Riel, A., Kollenhof, M., Boersma, S., Gommans, R., Ekert, D., Messnarz, R. (2016). A Compact Introduction to Automotive Engineering Knowledge. In: Kreiner, C., O'Connor, R., Poth, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 633. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44817-6_22
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