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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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Andrey Rudskoy, Rector of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, and Alexander Aslanyan, CEO of the Meridian Research and Production Company, signed a strategic partnership agreement. During the agreement's preparation, the partners held a meeting between Meridian specialists, led by Deputy CEO Alexander Kopanev, and employees of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, the Institute of Computer Science and Cybersecurity, the Civil Engineering Institute, and the Institute of Power Engineering. They expressed mutual interest in collaborating on personnel training and solving scientific and technical problems in the fields of marine radio communications, control systems, degaussing equipment, and fire safety.
Meridian is a multi-industry enterprise that carries out work in various areas:
Information and control systems; fire automatic systems; control panels for navigation equipment; control systems for radio communication and radio intelligence; systems for compensation of magnetic and electric fields; simulators; telemetry systems; power supply systems for ship complexes.
Over the years, the systems and devices developed by the company have been installed on almost all ships and vessels built in the USSR and Russia, including the nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Chebanenko, the icebreakers Arktika and Sibir, and many other ships and vessels.
The company currently boasts a highly qualified workforce. Young specialists and scientists specializing in algorithm development are involved in innovative projects and the development of breakthrough technologies using elements of artificial intelligence.
Present at the agreement signing were Rector Andrey Rudskoy, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Lyudmila Pankova, Vice Rector for Research Yuri Fomin, Academic Secretary Dmitry Karpov, Director of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Alexander Korotkov, Director of the Civil Engineering Institute Marina Petrochenko, Director of the Center for Scientific and Technical Development and Continuous Programming Oleg Ipatov, and Director of the Higher School of Electronics and Microsystems Engineering Vera Loboda. Meridian's representatives included Director General Alexander Aslanyan, Deputy Director General Alexander Kopanev, and HR Director Alla Sharshukova.
Our cooperation will be mutually beneficial. We will certainly be of assistance in training personnel. We will also jointly develop science and technical solutions," Andrey Rudskoy emphasized.
In addition, the rector of SPbPU spoke about the activities of all the university's institutes and noted how they could be involved in working with the enterprise.
The main goals of cooperation between SPbPU and NPF Meridian include:
Ensuring high-quality professional training of university graduates; Improving the effectiveness of fundamental and applied scientific research conducted by NPF Meridian and SPbPU; Ensuring the innovative nature of applied scientific research; Assistance in providing enterprises and organizations with young qualified specialists; Creation of organizational, scientific, educational, methodological, logistical and innovative potential for the implementation of joint activities of the university and NPF Meridian in the field of relevant scientific and technical, scientific and educational, scientific and innovative, investment, industrial and production, socio-economic and consulting projects and programs; Joint implementation of scientific and educational, scientific research, scientific and innovative, experimental design and other work in priority and promising areas of development of science, technology and engineering.
Alexander Aslanyan spoke in detail about the company's activities and noted the benefits of collaborating with Polytechnic University.
After signing the agreement, the university's new partners were given a tour of the Technopolis Polytech Scientific Research Center. The guests were shown the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Technology's laboratory, where the institute's director, Alexander Korotkov, described their key developments. The Meridian Scientific and Production Company delegation also visited the SPbPU supercomputer center and the Mechanical Engineering Technologies and Materials Research and Education Center.
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