Topic Lecture in New Format

To make the monthly topic lecture more attractive to the members of the graduate school, the management team decided to alternatively organize it, in addition to the old online lecture’s format (at 2 pm), as a fireside talk (at 5:30 pm) with prominent automotive experts, entrepreneurs, or political persons.

This new format started on October 7th, 2024, at the ITIV institute with a talk of Prof. Eric Sax, the current dean of the electrical engineering faculty at KIT and former top manager in the automotive industry, on the trends and challenges in automotive systems engineering. In a relaxed atmosphere, Prof. Sax gave interesting insights from different research projects and his personal experience in real automotive engineering.

The members discussed with the speaker the advances in automated driving, the importance of semiconductors, and the challenges specific to the German automotive industry. One of the main takeaways from this meeting is that processes, methods, and tools, which require highly skilled engineers, are lacking behind the today’s widely available technology enablers.