Positioning the ARC within the Student Projects
Rama, EAIn the EC we currently have the following student-project programs:
1. Bagrevand 21 projects (1st and 2nd year students)
2. Internship projects (usually 3rd and 4th year students)
3. BS Diploma projects (4th year students)
4. MS Thesis projects (5th and 6th year students)
5. PhD projects (PhD students)
The student projects could be categorized into the following three types:
1. Educational projects: these are projects given to students as educational. The works of the students here don't have a useful purpose for the companies. But this is the first interaction between company and students. It is the place where the companies get to know the students for future projects. And this by itself is very valuable.
2. Assistant projects: these are parts of current projects in the companies that get passed to the student interns as both useful work for the company and practice for the student. This work is usually done under the mentorship of one of the project team members.
3. Future-looking projects (ARC projects): these are projects that have elements of novelty for the company. Here, parts of the research is being passed to the ARC (Advanced Research Center) as there are no prior knowledge in the company, yet the company wants to acquire this knowledge through passing the research to the ARC and receive in return any possible outcomes from such research – a briefing, a POC, a prototype, an IP, a technology, an article, … – that will help the company make decisions on these new directions.
The future-looking projects (the ARC projects) could be categorized into three types:
1. Short-term Research: this is research done for a current project or for the assessment of a potential project.
2. Mid-term Research: this is research done for the next project or the next product.
3. Long-term Research: This is usually defined by the CTO of the company. CTOs are the individuals who look at technology and application trends and seek to incorporate them into their products and solutions.
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