Stefan Hardes

- Growing and leading an IAV project team - Guidance on complex technical problems in the field of engine controls - Responsible for sharpening the departments controls development tools - Developing proposals and reaching out to customers to win and maintain business - Identifying business opportunities and deriving business cases from it - Providing leadership for global business development for selected customers - Intensifying networking between IAV's global development teams

- Developing and leading a team of controls engineers working on several projects in the area of gasoline engines controls and highly complex engine components - Recruiting personnel - Developing individual road maps for team members - Technical leadership of an IAV team developing the software architecture for a BMW / PSA joint-venture engine development - Developing a quality and resources optimized software validation method (Validierungsmatrix)

- Recruiting - Business development - Project management - Acquiring and leading projects in the area of combustion engine controls

- Model based controls development for Common Rail Diesel engines - Controls concepts for Diesel engine particle filter monitoring and regeneration

- Numeric simulation of spray break-up in DI Diesel engines - Developing plug-in's in StarCD (CFD) for several fuel properties

- innovative gas heater combustion concepts - assessing new EU emission laws - product marketing for German market - technical translations

Graduated in several master exams Student research project titled "Determination of Fuel Mass Consumption in Aviation Piston Engines"

- Master thesis titled: "Numeric Simulation of Direct Injection Spray Propagation in Diesel Engines" - Several student research projects in the field of model based and predictive controls and internal combustion engines - Thermodynamics