AUTOSAR Certification for Mechatronics Students at the University of Reutlingen
Together with the University of Reutlingen, Vector launched a pilot project, which allows students in the Mechatronics course of studies to obtain the Vector certificate “Certified Embedded Associate” for the development of automotive software.
Winter semester had the first opportunity to participate in the training and testing in the form of “blended learning. The course content was taught here during the entire semester both online in self-study as well as in weekly “question & answer” events.
"For our students, participation in this industrial training (paid for by companies) and the certificate offer a unique opportunity to demonstrably obtain another piece of the tremendous “knowledge hub” that AUTOSAR concepts require already while studying industry,” says Professor Dr. Jens Weiland pleased.
“In general, students are exposed to AUTOSAR still much too little before entering into professional working life. For us, this cooperation is a great way to expose students to AUTOSAR as well as Vector as an employer already before beginning their professional lives. But on a personal level, the cooperation with the young dedicated people has been a great deal of fun for me,” emphasizes Samuel Kuttler from Vector.
The certification program is broken down into a number of activities between Vector Informatik and the University of Reutlingen. The goal here is to optimally prepare the mechatronics students for their entry to the industry.
AUTOSAR Certificate for Engineering Students at Pforzheim University
During the 2022/23 winter semester, Pforzheim University offered the course “AUTOSAR Basics” for the first time, giving a group of future engineers from the bachelor degree programs “Electrical Engineering/ Information Technology”, “Mechatronics”, and “Computer Engineering” an understanding of the automotive software development standard. AUTOSAR addresses the increasing complexity of E/E architecture by providing software specifications and interface definitions, establishes a common development methodology, and defines exchange formats.
The course was taught and assessed by external lecturer Samuel Kuttler, Software Development Engineer at Vector Informatik GmbH. On completion, he presented “Certified Embedded Associate” industry certificates for the development of automotive software to a total of seven Pforzheim students at the company’s site in Stuttgart/Weilimdorf. “Being able to take part in this industry training course, which companies have to pay for, has been a great opportunity for our students,” says Professor Dr.-Ing. Martin Pfeiffer, clearly pleased with the successful collaboration.
Find out more on the Pforzheim University website.
AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture)
The AUTOSAR development partnership consisting of vehicle manufacturers, suppliers as well as companies from the electronics, semi-conductor and software industry is celebrating its 20-year anniversary this year. By providing software specifications and interface definitions, AUTOSAR is addressing the increasing complexity of E/E architecture. In addition, exchange formats are also being defined and a joint development methodology defined. And given the changing control unit architectures, AUTOSAR is still a specification for implementing automotive requirements in E/E software development that virtually has no alternative.
As a fixed component of current vehicle OS and software-defined vehicle architectures, AUTOSAR wants to become more established in the future in related industrial sectors, such as medical, IoT, urban mobility, industrial automation and agriculture.
As a Premium Partner Plus (PP+), Vector is taking on enhanced control tasks in the development partnership. This means Vector is shaping the strategic alignment of AUTOSAR to ensure the effectiveness of the standard for future control unit development, such as in the software-defined vehicle.