OREANDA-NEWS. September 9, 2011. Perm Engine Company and Perm Aviation College named after A. Shvetsov came up with the cooperation agreement.  The document contains various forms of collaboration of the company and college in the sphere of young specialists training. 

In particular, the agreement includes such provisions as target admission of students, their traineeship in "PMZ" workshops and departments, cooperative research work, organization of professional skill competitions, participation of the company specialists in state attestation commission activities and other. Moreover, the special accent is made to the procedures related to the refresher courses, run in the college and intended for mid-tier specialists and workers of "PMZ".      

In 2008-2010 there was substantial modernization of the educational and material resources in Perm Aviation College within the top-priority national project "Education". Laboratory classrooms for the most wanted specialties such as ‘Foundry technology" and "Manufacturing engineering", one classroom for CNC machines programming, laboratory for special types of foundry, material science, physics, chemistry classes were arranged, and also some new office equipment was bought. Besides, the teachers took advanced training courses.   

Alexej Mikhalev, "PMZ" CEO: 

- Perm Aviation College named after A.Shvetsov is the basic educational establishment for our company: lots of graduates work around here, and the students take their practice courses in our shops and departments. However today we have to move to a new level of cooperation, because our global purpose is total modernization of production technologies, and this requires enrollment of new specialists, having comprehensive innovative education and able to deal with the most progressive methods. Perm Aviation College has everything to supply us with precisely this sort of specialists.

Today it is necessary to organize the learning process in such a way that it could let the junior students to use their new-acquired skills on practice, that is, in direct production. That's why I do think that the most effective scheme of training is the following - three days of the week the students study at the college and two days spend here, in our workshops and departments. This will also help to form closer relationship between "PMZ" specialists and college teachers. As for me, I was very interested in Aviation College director's initiative, who offered to generate special traineeship program for teachers, allowing them to get to know the peculiarities of new equipment and technologies.       

Nowadays it is extremely important to support the stable and mutually profitable relationship between educational and manufacturing structures.   We should make the best use of our opportunities, and thus we will have much more young high-qualified specialists, whose knowledge is so much wanted in our economical sector.