Active cooperation with the employing company is one of the priorities for the Faculty of Applied Mathematics. This allows you to ensure the employability of graduates in well-known international and Ukrainian IT companies to upgrade the content of academic disciplines and to improve the qualification of the teaching staff. Faculty cooperates with the Association "IT Ukraine" and such renowned IT companies like EPAM Systems, Luxoft, Miratech, GlobalLogic, DataArt, JMC.
Cooperation of the faculty and EPAM Systems Company began in 2010 with the company's charitable assistance in setting up the research laboratory. The next cooperation step was the annual active participation in international training workshop on applied problems of Computer and Software Engineering ACSE, conducted by the faculty. EPAM Systems Company considers this workshop as an opportunity to share their technical expertise with students. This year's seminar ACSE'13, held on 17-20 September, the company has secured the participation of its experts in seminars of three different formats: a master class, presentation, and report in the new format called “discussion-panel” with the experts of EPAM Systems. A new step in the interaction was inviting experts of EPAM Systems for information support of the educational process at the Faculty of Computer Systems Software. During the training included to the "Professional practice of software engineering" discipline, EPAM engineers share their experiences on parallel computing and distributed systems. The company has many more plans to expand the active cooperation with tis faculty.
Luxoft Company began to actively cooperate with the faculty in 2012. The first step was an agreement between the company and the faculty concerning students passing the 3rd year of educational technology practice. During this practice, students have an opportunity to learn the structure of the process of software development at the company, and taking training courses. This year's training sessions were devoted to the technology of software development, programming in Java, simulation software, testing software and pattern recognition. In addition to summer practice program, the company Luxoft offers students internship program. Internship Program provides a comprehensive study and work in a real project, where an intern can get thorough practical knowledge and becomes a junior specialist, which allows him to begin a successful career in the company. Luxoft Company cares about the life and teaching of students of the faculty. It purchased equipment for multimedia lab and sponsored the ACSE'13 seminar.
Cooperation between Miratech Company and the faculty is currently conducted in several areas related to holding company specialists training and workshops, training courses and internships. Recently, the company's specialists conducted two training sessions at the workshop ACSE'13, and soon we will be opening a course on project management. The training will last one semester, and after graduation the students shall write a term paper in a team. This will allow students to gain experience in team development applied in leading IT companies. Miratech is willing to take students of 3-5 courses to practice in its Kiev office, where they can gain valuable experience in international projects.
GlobalLogic Company is one of the traditional places of employment of the faculty graduates. In addition, specialists participate in training seminars held at the faculty. The most ambitious of these events was a series of workshops "Experts share latest GlobalLogic practices of software development: secrets of a big company." The plans for the future of the company - the opening of specialized laboratories at the Department of Applied Mathematics which will be used to conduct permanent courses on C + + programming.
Data Art Company has been collaborating with the faculty for three years, after DataArt office appeared in Kiev. The qualified professionals needed for the company were always found among the faculty students. So the next steps of the DataArt Company and the faculty towards each other were already quite logical and quickly grew into stable cooperation aimed at providing high quality training for IT- industry. The most intensive cooperation is in the direction of adapting the educational process to current market needs. DataArt is now working together with the department of system programming and specialized computer systems on the introduction of advanced methodologies for developing and maintaining the latest software in specialized laboratory workshops, and course and diploma projects. DataArt staff meet regularly with the faculty students, share their experience, conduct seminars and workshops on both pure technology and on career counseling and job placement. In addition, the company regularly promotes DataArt laboratory facilities at the faculty, providing fellow educators with deficient equipment and technical data, facilitating the production of themed booths and more. DataArt Company regularly supports the annual student scientific conference "Applied Mathematics and Computing" held by the faculty by providing prize money for the best students and researchers.
Over the years the cooperation between the QMS Company and the faculty established stable partnerships in the field of theoretical and practical training of IT specialists. Every year the company participates in all special events held at the department. The company is a regular employer of graduates and conducts free education in its own training center for testing and programming for Mac / iOS.
Therefore, cooperation between the leading IT companies is diverse and covers many aspects of training IT professionals. The main goal of this collaboration is providing quality education.