Invensys Partners with Kazakhstan University to Train Future Engineers

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has partnered with the Kazakh-British Technical University to provide equipment to help train future Kazakh engineers.

IPS has agreed to fully equip a technical laboratory to use InFusion, its leading Enterprise Control System. The laboratory will feature twelve personal computers, fifteen large-screen cmonitors and three servers, as well as a bank of micro controllers for automated systems.

The Kazakh-British Technical University (KBTU) in Almaty provides a variety of Degree, Masters and PhD courses that will equip the next generation of Kazakh engineers with the skills they need to be employed by both Kazakh and international energy companies.

IPS has also agreed to fund a permanent Chair of Computing and Software. The appointment, which has yet to be made, will develop a fully integrated training laboratory to improve students' information technology skills and qualifications as they relate to the financial and administrative branches of the economy.

The new technical laboratory was opened by the President of Nursultan Nazarbayev's Eduational Foundation and Mr. Patrick Buffet, President of IPS in EMEA. Following the opening, Degree Certificates were presented to recent graduates of KBTU, sponsored by IPS.

IPS now has offices in both Almaty and Atyrau, and its goal is to ensure that by 2010, more than 80 percent of its employees in Kazakhstan will be Kazakh nationals, a figure which exceeds the government targets for businesses operating in Kazakhstan.