Automotive Software Engineering

Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Schauffele studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart with a focus on control engineering. He started his professional career in 1993 with the firm of ISG GmbH, a spinoff of the Institute of Control Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. In 1995, he joined ETAS GmbH and supported the introduction of ETAS tools in numerous engineering and consulting projects with various customers in the automotive industry worldwide. From 1999 to 2001, he worked in the Systems Engineering Methods, Software Process, Tools department of the Electronics Development section at BMW Headquarters in Munich. Since 2003, he has coordinated the various product divisions at ETAS GmbH.

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zurawka studied electrical engineering at the University of Stuttgart and wrote a detailed doctorate thesis on digital signal processing. He started his professional career in 1992 with ZF Friedrichshafen AG before joining Advanced Development at Robert Bosch GmbH in 1993, where he worked on real-time operating systems. Having joined ETAS in its early days, Dr. Zurawka initially developed code generators. He subsequently headed the development of the ASCET engineering tool for software development. Since 1997, he has been responsible for the overall development at ETAS. Dr. Zurawka is the CEO of ETAS GmbH.