A STUDENT OF THE FACULTY OF ECONOMICS HAS DEVELOPED A SET OF LABORATORY WORKSHOPS
From time immemorial, information has been considered a valuable resource. Today, it is possible to try yourself in a new field, gain new competencies, and get acquainted with the basics of promising areas of knowledge thanks to convenient educational products. One of them is a complex of laboratory workshops, including laboratory installations and methodological materials, developed by Polina Yemelyanova, a student of the Faculty of Economics. The product will be useful for those who are interested in bioengineering, robotics and telecommunications.
The project is carried out within the framework of the federal program "Startup as a diploma", which serves as an alternative form of graduate qualification work. The scientific supervisor overseeing the work on the startup was Associate Professor of the Department of Finance and Credit Elena Chistopolskaya. The development team is counting on the commercial success of the project.
Let's be clear: the laboratory workshop is aimed at developing skills in the development of hardware and software microcontroller systems, and this is a product oriented towards implementation. The workshops will be a good help for students of specialized classes and students of technical specialties interested in getting an education in this field, novice specialists or specialists with short work experience, specialists with experience working in bioengineering, robotics and telecommunications.
"In addition, the workshops may be of interest to organizations that wish to improve the skills of their employees, as well as individuals who want to receive highly qualified training in a sought–after specialty," explained Polina Yemelyanova.
The complex of laboratory workshops includes printed methodological materials with the theoretical foundations of working with microcontroller systems, practical tasks aimed at consolidating theoretical knowledge and acquiring practical skills, as well as unique laboratory installations for performing practical tasks.
The most interesting part of the complex is the laboratory facilities. They are a set that includes the main board and several additional ones. The main parts and components of the microcontroller are located on them. Depending on the task, the user will need to connect them together in a certain sequence.
To promote the workshops, a website will be created where their sale will take place. It is assumed that the workshops will be implemented on marketplaces as well.
A large team joined in the creation of the project. Thus, Associate Professor of the Department of Dynamic Modelling and Biomedical Engineering Victoria Skazkina has experience in project management. Victoria Viktorovna's task is to form a startup development strategy. In the first year of the project, she will actively participate in the creation of an innovative educational product, communicate with the first consumers, and conduct promotions to attract legal entities as potential clients. The head of the Department of Dynamic Modelling and Biomedical Engineering Anatolii Karavayev is also included in the work. An assistant at the same department, Alexander Kurbako, has extensive production experience in developing hardware and software complexes. Alexander Vasilyevich is responsible for the creation of the laboratory complex. In addition, the team includes students from the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Law, as well as a marketing specialist.
According to Polina, by February-March 2024, the complex will enter the educational products market. It is planned to sell 380 units in the first year.
"After that, we plan to gradually increase production volumes and expand the market share," Polina Yemelyanova shared her thoughts.
It is important to note that the project is unique for the Saratov region, at the moment it has no analogues.
Aelita Ponomaryova
Translated by Lyudmila Yefremova
