Visteon Hardware academy - an additional advanced opportunity for education and training in automotive electronics for university students

The article presents a pilot course from the newly established Hardware Academy. The training was conducted within 2 semesters with students from TU - Sofia from the 3-rd year of the Bachelor’s degree program in Electronics. The program was proposed by Visteon’s experts. The focus of the program was the development of a specific car cluster project in a team. The University’s desire was to enable students to apply learning in this modern field, while being able to interact closely with other team members, including the industry experts. The program of the course is presented in detail. The results of the program are shown and discussed.