Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics is a multinational company headquartered in Suwon, South Korea. It is the flagship subsidiary of the Samsung group, accounting for 70% of the group’s revenue, and has been the world’s largest consumption goods company by sales since 2013. Samsung electronics has assembly plants and sales networks in 80 countries and employs around 285,000 people. Samsung has long been a global leading manufacturer of electronic components such as batteries, semiconductors, flash memory, and hard drive devices. In recent years, it became world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones and smartphones fueled by the popularity of Samsung Galaxy line of devices.

Samsung Innovation Museum (SIM) exhibits the history and the future of innovations brought by electronics industry as the name of the SIM stands for. In three halls – Era of Inventors, Era of Corporate Innovation, and Era of Creation – Samsung Innovation Museum shows not only the history of the electronics industry but also the achievement that Samsung Electronics has made in the IT industry with its leading semi-conductor, display and mobile technologies.

CJ E&M

CJ E&M is a South Korean entertainment and media contents company. CJ E&M is Asia’s leading content and media company and develops trendsetting content for their broadcast, film, music and live entertainment businesses. In its home country of Korea, CJ E&M operates 18 specialty cable channels covering diverse genres. In three years the young company CJ E & M achieved sales of $ 2.7 billion.

LG Display

LG Display is a leading manufacturer of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, OLEDs and flexible displays. The company provides display panels in a wide range of sizes and specifications applying the various cutting-edge technologies such as AH-IPS, FPR 3D, OLED, and Flexible. LG Display currently operates nine fabrication facilities and seven back-end assembly facilities in Korea, China, Poland, and Mexico. As of the end of 2014, 52,000 employees work for LG Display worldwide. The company ranked No.1 worldwide with 24% market share for large area TFT-LCD panel market in 2014.

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) is one of global top 3 shipbuilders and it is known as the premium shipbuilding and offshore contractor, specialized in building various vessels, offshore platforms, drilling rigs, FPSO/FPUs, submarines, and destroyers. As of 2013, DSME recorded production capacity of three million compensated gross tonnage (CGT) and order backlogs of six million CGT.

Korea Exchange

Korea Exchange (KRX) is the sole securities exchange operator in South Korea. It is headquartered in Busan, and has an office for cash markets and market oversight in Seoul. The Korea Exchange was created through the integration of Korea Stock Exchange, Korea Futures Exchange and KOSDAQ Stock Market under the Korea Stock & Futures Exchange Act.

Hyundai Motor Group

The Hyundai Motor Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company. It is the largest automobile manufacturer in South Korea, the second largest automaker in Asia after Toyota and the world’s fifth largest automaker. Its integrated automobile manufacturing facility in Ulsan, South Korea, has an annual production capacity of 1.6 million units. The company employs about 105,000 people worldwide and its vehicles are sold in 193 countries.

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Tecnology

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Tecnology (DGIST) – scientific and technological innovation complex for the development and commercialization of new technologies was established in 2004. as the State Research Institute to support new interdisciplinary areas of research. In 2011 on the base of Institute was created University, which claims to be the world’s leading multidisciplinary research center. Among the main directions of the research center: energy system engineering, information & communication engineering, brain science, emerging materials science, new biology, robotics engineering.

SK Telecom

SK Telecom is a South Korean’s largest telecommunication company, leading the local market with more than 50 percent share. SK Telecom is ranked No. 1 in brand value for telecommunication industry in Korea. SK Telecom won the ‘Outstanding LTE contribution award’ at MWC Global Mobile Awards in 2013 and 2014. SK Telecom was also the world’s first operator to offer a commercial LTE-Advanced network. SK Telecom have partnered with major telecommunications companies in Asia to build a global ecosystem and take part in activities of international organizations and telecommunications agencies, including ITU, UNGC and CDG, to strengthen the global presence.

The Avtodesk company, located in San Francisco, is a leader in the development of advanced 2D and 3D technology for visualization, modeling and behavior analysis of the developed structures at the early stages of design. On the 20th of June, 2014 the Head of Autocad Department, Michael Belilovsky discovered the world of high tech design to the HSSE MIPT students. Its purpose is the preparation and optimization of computer project model before being implemented physically. Users could not just observe the model on the screen, but also they can test it. It saves time and money, increase quality and generate innovative ideas. Important decisions are made at the early stages of design, reducing time on project change and reprocessing. The opportunity to observe the project in action before its creation helps developers to identify and correct potential defects at early process stages.

The IDEO company, located in Palo Alto, is legendary in the West. For fourteen years, IDEO has been holdind the first position in the ranking of Business Week magazine in “Design” category, and in 2006, Boston Consulting Group raised IDEO to the15th place in the list of the twenty most innovative companies in the world.

IDEO – is a global design – consulting company that helps organizations to innovate through design. IDEO examines the best ideas, brave insights and, moreover, implements them, puts into production as far as IDEO accumulated a huge industrial experience in transportation, telecommunications, health and nutrition. On June 19, 2014 an inventor, mechanical engineer Nikolay Vladimirov , revealed the IDEO secret for the HSSE MIPT students, which is based on three components: “human factor”, aimed at a better understanding of people, “business factor” contributing to the understanding of business objectives, and and “technology factor”. And design glues all these components together. Thus, each idea must be of high demand for the customer, technologically feasible and viable from a business perspective.

TechShop is “a fairyland for craftsmen”, which allows to implement any idea for amateur and professional engineers. It is a workplace and an access to various tools for realization of their ideas. On June 21, 2014 TechShop representative Andrew Wong took the students to the workshops and told them about the history of the company. The main highlight of the company visit was the students’ participation in the team game, called “Chain reaction”.

Familiarity with medical equipment and innovations took place in the company Abbott Medical Optics (AMO) on June 20, 2014. R&D Director Dmitry Chernyak told about the company’s business AMO, about a wide range of refractive technologies for patients with myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism, presbyopia, spherical aberrations and corneal disorders. He showed the product development process, where in the main process cycle the consumer’s needs are the starting point of the process of output development and verification, after that it transfers for the implementation in a medical device, certification and return to a consumer.

On June 20, 2014 the HSSE MIPT students visited the company Triple Ring Technologies, a laboratory for the technology and product development, successfully completed over 300 projects. Innovation director , Amish Parashar took future systems engineers through the company office, which includes laboratories for electronics, optics, radiation development, mechanical prototyping, system integration and experimental production. Great company experience in product development varies from very small devices (sensors) to very large (display systems) and embodies simple but smart design solutions of complex electro-optomechanical systems.

On June 13, 2014 HSSE students were warmly welcomed in the US company iRobot Corporation, the robot manufacturer that completely change a person’s life. It is hard to enumerate all the perform development areas of iRobot Corporation at the moment: from robot explorer or robot lifeguard to robot housewife. Nicholas Romanov, one of the iRobot chief engineers told about the history of the company’s establishment and its initial activity – the implementation of US military and NASA orders. He told about the currently work as a robotics leader with the scientific and industrial base at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and with manufacturing and assembly plants in different countries around the world. Nicholas demonstrated the company’s products, introduced to robotic assistants, assistants in medical and social institutions.

The production site of Gentherm company is located at the foot of the mountains, almost in the outskirts of Pasadena, Los Angeles. Gentherm is the world leader in thermal technology that designs, develops and manufactures devices for heating, cooling and ventilation for different consumer segments.

On June 13, 2014 R&D Director, Dmitry Kossakovsky, told about the Gentherm company as the skilled developer and supplier of system solutions for heating and/or cooling the vehicle interior contact surfaces. Gentherm is recognized by the largest automobile corporations as a reliable and outstanding device supplier with more than forty-year history on the expertise transfer to leading vehicle manufacturers and suppliers.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency owned by the USA federal government, reporting directly to the Vice-President of the United States. It is responsible for civil space program of the country.

The “Google” company is an American multinational public corporation that invests in Internet search, cloud computing and advertising technologies. In 2011, Google has been recognized as the company with the best reputation in the US, ahead of Microsoft, Sony and other companies.