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Mr Chandran Nair, Managing Director, National Instruments Southeast Asia, and Ms. Le Duy Loan, Senior Fellow of Texas Instruments, presenting the winning team from Hanoi University of Science & Technology with first prize - PHOTO: NI
Le Duy Loan, a senior board member of NI, said that in the long term, NI will create conditions and give internship to fresh graduates to help them get employment quickly and gain experiences in team working, public speaking and communication in foreign languages. National Instruments is a supplier of technology, both hardware and software, for a vast array of industries, from automobile to electronics and atomic physics.
Loan was explaining the company’s assistance to students at a meeting in HCMC on Tuesday, when the final round of NI Innovation Design Competition for Young Entrepreneurs in Vietnam was held and winners announced. The competition on making creative designs targeting Vietnamese graduates from technical colleges or students of such schools was kicked off in June.
She told local media that students need three key factors – education environment, job opportunities and guidance from senior engineers. These factors will help students develop their projects while they must have passion to realize their ideas and schemes.
NI cooperated with HCMC Vocational College to establish LabVIEW Academy in March, 2014. Currently, some 20 students and lecturers are taking training courses there and they are going to get LabVIEW certificates soon. The program will get support in technology and teaching equipment from NI.
At present, university students in the U.S. are using LabVIEW to gain more knowledge for job application.
With a representative office in HCMC since 2011, NI has provided automation and quality check solutions for some universities, research entities and factories.
NI has seen increasing demands for the solutions in Vietnam partly due to low labor productivity. Vietnamese workers’ labor productivity is far lower than that of many other countries in Asia-Pacific, which is only equal to 1/15 of Singapore’s. In Singapore, a factory employs only five workers to run 40 machines thanks to application of automation process.
Besides, the local agriculture industry may apply automation solutions to raise productivity and reduce farmers’ working time. Given NI’s technological supports, investment cost in the solutions is only one-tenth of those offered by other enterprises, according to Loan.
NI’s assistance to Vietnamese students and lecturers and its research activities aims to introduce its automation solutions to companies and factories in Vietnam in the future.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
