FIRST EVENT DEDICATED TO 75th ANNIVERSARY OF ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY HELD AT SYNOPSYS ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan
May 1, 2008

YEREVAN, MAY 1, NOYAN TAPAN. Education-science-production cooperation
between State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA – "Polytechnic")
and Synopsys company will be contagious for many, while the RA National
Assembly is ready to encourage and assist with Synopsys’ initiatives,
the speaker of the NA Tigran Torosian during the April 29 festive
event dedicated to 75th anniversary of SEUA. The event was organized
by Synopsys Armenia CJSC – Armenian subsidiary of Synopsys company,
world leader in electronic automated design.

In the words of Rich Goldman, Vice President for Strategic Market
Development of Synopsys and CEO of Synopsys Armenia, SEUA is a
very important university for Armenia and one of the most famous
universities which prepared a great number of qualified engineers
and political figures.

"We are proud of having such good relations with SEUA. It is obvious
that this university will make a great contribution to the the
country’s building," he said.

General manager of Synopsys Armenia Hovik Musaelian in his turn
stated that over the 75 years of its existence, SEUA has implemented
its major mission by ensuring an efficient "university-production"
cooperation. According to him, although Synopsys cooperates with nearly
500 universities worldwide, the company management has repeatedly
noted that the cooperation with SEUA in Armenia is unique by its
nature and significance. The fact that an interdepartmental chair
"Microelectronic Systems and Chips" functions at SEUA shows that
the company has established quite serious cooperation with the
university. About 300 students study at the chair. Nearly 30% of
Synopsys Armenia’s employees are SEUA graduates.

The RA minister of economy Nerses Yeritsian also attached
importance, from the viewpoint of economic development, to the
successful experience of cooperation of Synopsys and SEUA by
education-science-business link. In his words, it is based on this
link that a knowledge-based economy should be built in Armenia. The
state will increase financing of sceintific developments and research,
and the financing experience of Synopsys will be used for calculation
of allocations for this purpose.

Rector of SEUA Vostanik Marukhian said that the event organized by
Synopsys Armenia launches a series of events dedicated to the 75th
anniversary of "Polytechnic", and the fact of holding this event at
Synopsys Armenia shows that the cooperation of SEUA and Synopsys, which
began four and a half years ago, is bearing fruit. In this respect he
considered it imporatnt that some graduates of SEUA interdepartmental
chair "Microelectronic Systems and Chips" now teach at the university,
which contributes to rejuvination of the teaching staff.