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Challenges of Automotive Systems Engineering for Industry and Academia

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The chapter reflects many years of working on systems development in industry and academia and gives a personal view of the subject. This is not based on systematic research, has no claim to be representative and may be highly subjective. It is the product of experience gained in a number of predevelopment projects and an initial development for volume production at a tier-one supplier, as well as university research into functional and methodological aspects of systems engineering.

This chapter begins by defining some terms, and proceeds to review characteristic elements of Systems Engineering, first in general and then specifically for the automotive sector. An overview of frequently used methods is then followed by a discussion of the specific challenges posed by automotive Systems Engineering for industry and academia. Finally, the resulting recommendations are presented and examples of the scientific work on Automotive Systems Engineering in our Institute of Automotive Engineering (FZD, Fahrzeugtechnik TU Darmstadt) are introduced.

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    As there are many different definitions for the term “system”, major parts of the present definition will unavoidably overlap with one or several of them. No claim to originality is made, therefore, in regard to this or any subsequent definitions used.

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Winner, H. (2013). Challenges of Automotive Systems Engineering for Industry and Academia. In: Maurer, M., Winner, H. (eds) Automotive Systems Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36455-6_1

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