Dr. Bjelica is a Functional Safety instructor at the University of California San Diego, CA, USA and a CEO of NIT Institute LLC. During his career he was conducting research and innovation activities for various computer-engineering sectors, with a focus on consultancy and training in the fields of system safety, functional safety, automotive engineering and consumer electronics. During his career, he consulted companies in the automotive industry (ZF Germany, TTTech Austria, Qualcomm Automotive USA, Daimler Germany) and also other companies in consumer electronics, industrial machinery and computing domains. He is a frequent participant and a speaker at major industry events worldwide.

Dr. Bjelica holds a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, where he also holds the position of Associate Professor for computer engineering and automotive engineering. He also holds the Academic safety engineer degree from FH CampusWien /Vienna Institute for Safety and Systems Engineering (Austria).

His professional and research focus is on complex system and software architectures with specific interactions and virtualization. He authored more than 100 publications across major journals and scientific conferences, and also holds 30 patents.

Provides students with essentials of safety for technical systems, the most common pitfalls, concepts and techniques

Covers concepts from system and requirements engineering and their connection to safety precursors and prescriptions

Focuses on functional safety as the most common prescription in today's systems, using industry-relevant examples

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Introduction.- Critical systems.- System requirements and functions.- System safety.- System safety process.- Functional safety.- Defining safety functions.- Safety integrity and random failures.- Safety integrity of composite systems.- Safety integrity improvement methods.- Proving the safety integrity.- Practical SIL calculation.- System safety checklist.