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Modernizing laboratories for automotive industry related curricula

By recognizing the needs of both global and local labor market related to the automotive industry, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology (FERIT) Osijek, Croatia and the Faculty of Technical Sciences (FTN) Novi Sad, Serbia, have launched new study programs oriented towards education of engineers specialized for automotive software and hardware. It is therefore necessary to enable students to work with the latest equipment, which in the case of automotive industry is quite expensive. Thus FERIT and FTN have applied for a joint project of cross-border cooperation between Croatia and Serbia, named "Modernizing Laboratories for Innovative Technologies” (DRIVE), which is approved and currently is in implementation, starting in July 2017. Using the funds of the DRIVE project, until now faculties have acquired the valuable equipment, which serves them for teaching students through modern courses in the automotive field. This paper describes the procured equipment and the content of few key courses of new study programs that students of these faculties make ready for the fastest growing part of the labor market, both locally and globally across Europe.

automotive ; engineering education ; automotive software ; curriculum development ; learning materials

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