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Electric Powertrain Engineer Skills Needs and Pilot Course Implementation

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One of the main technological challenges forced by CO2 reduction regulations in the automotive sector nowadays is the need to develop and implement efficient electric powertrains. To be able to cope with this change and be able to propose innovative solutions, engineers must be able to understand the domain-specific knowledge. In this paper, we introduce the skill set defined as the basic knowledge of the electric powertrain engineer and present the pilot course implementation developed to cover the needed skills. The skill card is based on the analysis of different stakeholders’ viewpoints and combined views from different technical domains; mainly mechanical, electronics, and software engineering.

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The ECQA Certified Electric Powertrain Engineer project (ECEPE) is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Call 2019 Round 1 KA203 Programme of the European Union under the agreement 2019–1-CZ01-KA203–061430. This work is partially supported by Grants of SGS No. SP2021/87 and SP2021/49, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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Stolfa, S. et al. (2021). Electric Powertrain Engineer Skills Needs and Pilot Course Implementation. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Messnarz, R., Reiner, M. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85521-5_46

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