Technical Collaborations between SAMCO and Universities in Asia

On February 27^th, seven MBA students and their professor from Korea’s Nigawa University visited SAMCO’s headquarters in Kyoto, Japan.  The students showed great interest in SAMCO’s management and administration areas.  Furthermore the University expressed an interest to form a collaborative internship program and strong relationship with SAMCO.

At around the same time Professor Trin Quang Thong who is researching MEMS at Vietnam’s University of Electrical Engineering also visited SAMCO was given a short course in silicon etching by scientists and engineers of the R&D center. On the 14^th of March, Seika University’s Professor Kiyoko Higashi and the University of Engineering’s Dean, Professor Okikin came to Kyoto as part of our collaboration agreement in order to discuss the Nano technology skills which can be applied to the next generation of communication tools.  All parties exchanged ideas and opinions regarding the state of our collaborative research.  Furthermore, last year SAMCO proactively accepted talented PHD students from these universities for internships.

As of March 2008 research has also begun in the second R&D center at SAMCO, and therefore technical collaborations are expected to increase even more. SAMCO is actively pursuing to strengthen such collaborations between academic institutions in both technological and management areas.