Practical design experiences for transportation systems and applications: analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems, high voltage structures and integrated sensors and transducers, RF architectures, distributed and multicore systems, networks of systems, real-time reliable embedded systems. Design for reliability and security in safety-critical systems. Practical applications of design methods to transportation systems, including models, methods and tools, design of hardware and software components, architecture analysis and optimization, component-oriented design and system-level analysis and validation.