Text Box: Workshop on Trends and Challenges of Automotive Industry Scope The scope of the workshop, which is a joint event of the EPE 2020 Conference, is intended to bring together industry specialists, young professionals, engineers, scientists and academia in to an open discussion on topics related to automotive industry. You can actively participate to the workshop by either proposing a presentation with a related topic or submitting a research paper. At this workshop, topics related to new trends and challenges of the automotive industry are eligible proposals for discussion starters.   Topics (not limited to): Safety engineering Security engineering System engineering Autonomous driving Connected cars, V2I, V2V Architecture of systems for next generation vehicles Remote monitoring and diagnostic   Call for Papers Papers focusing on the above topics may be submitted for peer review using  the electronic submission interface of the Conference under the appropriate track. Please read Info for Authors. The papers may present research results obtained by advancing the state of art in the field of Safety and Security in Systems Engineering, Automated Driving, Sensors and Systems used in Autonomous Vehicles. Accepted papers complying with EPE 2020 requirements (http://www.epe.tuiasi.ro/2020/) will be included in the Conference Proceedings. The Proceedings will be submitted to different databases and indexing bodies, including IEEE Xplore and Clarivate Analytics (former Thomson Reuters ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index. This workshop session is a joined collaboration between Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Iasi and Continental Automotive Romania.   Workshop Chairs: Daniel Petrisor, PhD E-mail: dpetrisor@tuiasi.ro, Tel: +40767396447 Faculty of Electrical Engineering Iasi, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi     Continental Automotive Romania