Program Overview

Functional Safety Fundamentals for Automotive Program

The Functional Safety Fundamentals for Automotive professional certificate provides up-to-date content in the fields of system engineering, system safety, and functional safety tailored for applications in the automotive industry. Participants in this program will learn the practical insights of the required standards for automotive functional safety engineering (ISO 26262) and the development processes as key factors towards the mitigation of systematic faults (ASPICE).

Program Overview

• The program introduces functional safety terminology, concepts, and safety analysis methods.
• It covers fault tolerance concepts, including the design considerations to achieve functional safety requirements with an emphasis on automotive systems.
• The certificate details the required automotive processes and the application of relevant functional safety standards.

Program Benefits

• In-depth understanding of functional safety standard for automotive (ISO 26262), its purpose, key methodology, and safety measures
• Hands-on experience with safety analysis methods used in the automotive industry
• Taught by industry professionals with relevant experience in Automotive Engineering and Functional Safety
• Access to dedicated Career Resources Hub with career information, job postings, events, and tutorials

Program Topics and Objectives

Learning Objectives

• Understand the fundamentals of system engineering and system safety
• Learn functional safety appropriate terminology, assessment, and goals
• Become aware of key processes and practices used in automotive development
• Apply functional safety standard (ISO 26262) to automotive projects

Program Topics

• Systems, Functions, and Safety
• Safety Analysis Methods
• Fault Tolerant Systems
• Automotive Functional Safety Standards
• Automotive Functional Safety Design
• Safety Software
• Safety Verification and Validation

Required Courses

• Systems, Functions, and Safety: Gain a system-level perspective and achieve system safety. Learn the fundamentals of system engineering, including the most important phases such as requirements engineering, design synthesis, implementation, verification, validation, and disposal, and their impact on safety.
• Safety Analysis Techniques: Learn the most common safety analysis techniques. System Analysis Techniques course gives an overview and classification of methods used to assess the safety of a system.
• Fault Tolerant Systems: Learn about Fault Tolerant Systems. Fault Tolerant Systems course introduces basic concepts of design and implementation of fault tolerance mechanisms in general systems.
• Automotive Quality and Project Management: Learn about Quality Management in Automotive Engineering and the impact on Safety.
• Automotive Functional Safety Standards: Learn the Lifecycle and Mandatory Processes of Automotive ISO26262 Standard.

Course of Interest

• Automotive Functional Safety Design: Apply modeling methods to the technical safety concept. Automotive Functional Safety Design course provides the best practices in designing safety functions within safety-related systems in modern vehicles.
• Functional Safety Software: Learn about Automotive software. This course expands on the overall role software plays in modern technical systems, with emphasis on next-generation vehicle designs where software takes the dominating role.
• Safety Verification and Validation: Verification and validation processes and assessments. Verification and validation are deemed essential from the standpoint of communication, legal approval, and product placement.

Program Details

• Duration: 15 Months
• Format: Live Online
• Tuition Fee: $6,500 (estimate does not include textbook or material fees, nor certificate fee)
• Certificate Fee: $125 (one-time fee for students pursuing the certificate)

Advisory Board

• Upkar Dhaliwal, Vice President Technology and Strategy, Assured Wireless Corporation
• Sean Felker, Functional Safety Lead, Brain Corp.
• Rahul Gulati, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm Automotive Group
• Sylvia Herbert, Dr., Professor, UCSD School of Engineering, MAE department
• Ivan Kastelan, Dr., Professor and Senior Researcher, RT-RK Computer Based Systems Institute, Novi Sad, Serbia
• Nebojsa Pjevalica, Dr., Professor and System Architect at RT-RK CBS Institute, Faculty of Technical Science, University of Novi Sad

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