According to ISO 26262 (the international standard on functional safety for automotive industry), the functional safety should be considered during the whole automotive systems life cycle from the design phase throughout the production phase. In order to satisfy the standard, the automotive and related industry needs to take appropriate actions while carrying out a variety of development activities. This paper presents an approach to coping with the standard. Analyzing the standard indicates that the safety issues of the automotive systems should be handled with a system's view whereas the conventional approach to solving the issues has been practiced with focus on the component's level. The aforementioned system's view implies that the functional safety shall be incorporated in the system design from both the system's life-cycle view and the hierarchical view for the structure. In light of this, the systems engineering framework can be quite appropriate in the functional safety development and thus has been taken in this paper as a problem solving approach. Of various design issues, the analysis and verification of the safety requirements for functional safety is a key study subject of the paper. Note, in particular, that the conventional FMEA (failure mode effects analysis) and FTA (fault tree analysis) methods seem to be partly relying on the insufficient experience and knowledge of the engineers. To improve this, a systematic method is studied here and the result is applied in the design of an ABS braking system as a case study.

In modern systems design and development, one of the key issues is considered to be related with how to reflect faithfully the stakeholder requirements including customer requirements therein, thereby successfully implementing the system functions derived from the requirements. On the other hand, the issue of safety management is also becoming greatly important these days, particularly in the operational phase of the systems under development. An approach to safety management can be based on the use of the failure mode effect and analysis (FMEA), which has been a core method adopted in automotive industry to reduce the potential failure. The fact that a successful development of cars needs to consider both the complexity and failure throughout the whole life cycle calls for the necessity of applying the systems engineering (SE) process. To meet such a need, in this paper a method of FMEA is developed based on the SE concept. To do so, a process model is derived first in order to identify the required activities that must be satisfied in automotive design while reducing the possibility of failure. Specifically, the stakeholder requirements were analyzed first to derive a set of functions, which subsequentially leads to the task of identifying necessary HW/SW components. Then the derived functions were allocated to appropriate HW/SW components. During this design process, the traceability between the functions and HW/SW components were generated. The traceability can play a key role when FMEA is performed to predict the potential failure that can be described with the routes from the components through the linked functions. As a case study, the developed process model has been applied in a project carried out in practice. The results turned out to demonstrate the usefulness of the approach.

According to Shohamy (2007), the tests of certain languages deliver messages and ideologies about the prestige, priorities and hierarchies of the languages, leading to policies of suppression of diversity. The test-driven language policies also lead to a narrow view of language as standardized and homogenous. The purpose of this paper is to contextualize English language tests in relation to language policy tools in Korea. The discussion of inappropriately used test-driven policies was supported by several test development cases in Korea, which appeared in newspaper articles, testing companies’ newsletters, or government documents. Different English language tests intended as language policy tools were categorized into three major situations: government-led, school-contextualized, and industry-based. It was argued that the English test-driven policy movement must have influenced teaching, learning, and the curriculum, to the extent that policy-making and testing essentially became synonymous.

국내 도로의 주행안전성을 확보하기 위하여 2000년에 처음으로 노면요철 포장을 도입하였다. 본 공법의 효과가 증명되면서부터 시공물량은 매년 증가하였다. 본 연구진은 기존형태를 개선하여 본선 콘크리트 포장부 시공 시 동시에 노면요철 포장을 설치하는 형식을 제안하였다 노면요철 포장 시공장비를 제작하여 평택~음성 고속국도에 시험시공을 하였으며 그 효과를 분석하였다. AASHTO에서 제안한 식을 이용하여 횡방향 정지거리를 산출한 결과, 개선된 노면요철 포장의 횡방향 여유 폭이 0.5m 더 확보되어 기존형태보다 더 안전한 것으로 나타났다. 소음도 평가결과, 노면요철 포장이 없는 구간을 주행할때보다 약 3.5~9dB(A)까지 더 크게 소음이 발생하여 졸음을 예방하거나 운전자의 환경을 개선시키는 것으로 나타났다. 진동평가에서는 주로 사람의 안구에 영향을 주는 주파수 영역대의 진동이 지배적인 것으로 나타났다. 주행 후 운전자들의 설문조사 결과에서는 개선된 형태가 기존형태보다 소음이나 진동에서 큰 차이는 없지만 주행상의 안정감이 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 개선된 공법을 도로에 확대 적용할 경우, 기존보다 교통사고 및 사망자수를 줄일 수 있을 것으로 평가된다.