Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute – Melexis-Ukraine: cooperation is deepening
On 21 August, Melexis-Ukraine handed over a set of modern electronic equipment to Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute to equip the joint educational and research laboratory at the Faculty of Electronics. The acceptance and transfer agreement was signed by the company’s director Yevhen Vasir and the rector of the university Anatolii Melnychenko.
It should be noted that the provision of this equipment is not the beginning of cooperation between the university and the company, but its continuation and expansion. In fact, the cooperation between them began back in 2007 with the opening of a joint research and training laboratory between NTUU ‘KPI’ and Melexis at IASA. Subsequently, the company established a scholarship for the best polytechnic students who undergo internships there, and then launched a programme of cooperation with teachers. In addition, a programme for the analogue electronics discipline was developed and agreed with the specialists of Melexis-Ukraine, and in 2018, another joint analogue electronics training and research laboratory Melexis – Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was opened at the Faculty of Electronics with six seats. The equipment handed over by the director of Melexis-Ukraine on 21 August is intended for this laboratory. It will increase the number of workplaces in the laboratory to ten and enable students to master the most modern tools for engineering and scientific activities – exactly the same as those currently used by Melexis specialists.
According to Yevhen Vasiur, the faculty also received a setup board, a smart power supply, a signal generator, an oscilloscope that can be used to make the relevant measurements, and a multimeter. All this equipment will help students who have gained theoretical knowledge to acquire practical skills in working with modern equipment.
The signing of the agreement was preceded by a discussion about further horizons of cooperation. In particular, Rector Anatolii Melnychenko pointed out the interesting prospects that could be opened up for both the company and the university by introducing dual education, certificate programmes, etc. at the FEL, and suggested that work should begin on bringing this idea to life. By the way, this would be logical for the company, since already now, according to its HR specialist Olha Prykhodko, about 40% of its employees are KPI graduates.
Acting Dean of FEL Serhii Naida said that the new laboratory equipment will be used from the very beginning of the academic year. ‘We have a mixed form of the educational process, laboratory work will be conducted in a full-time mode,’ he said. ’The laboratory has 10 workstations equipped with modern analogue circuitry. It will be used for laboratory work and research. Students will work in the laboratory from the 3rd year of study.’
For reference. ‘Melexis is an international high-tech company that creates innovative analogue and digital integrated circuits (various types of sensors, motor control circuits, etc.), mainly for the automotive industry, wireless communication systems, etc. The company is headquartered in Belgium and has offices in 19 countries on three continents.
