Manila, Philippines -- 06 April 2015 -- The University of
the Philippines (UP), the country’s premier higher education institution, in
partnership with Nokia-Manila Technology Center (Nokia-Manila TC) has recently
inaugurated a new engineering laboratory in its Diliman campus in an effort to
provide quality hands-on education and training to telecommunications
engineering students.
Located within the university’s Electrical and Electronics
Engineering Institute (EEEI), the UP-Nokia Telecommunications Engineering
Laboratory features Nokia Networks’ state-of-the-art equipment, including a
radio access network that can connect user devices to one of Nokia Networks
core network in Asia. A full class can experience the equipment, providing them
with real-life experience on telecommunications operations.
The new learning facility helps the state university stay
true to as one of the few centers of excellence and development in the
Philippines. "Wireless and cellular telecommunications are normally just
taught from textbooks,” said EEEI Director Dr. Joel Marciano Jr. “But with the
new laboratory our students will actually see the interaction between mobile
phones and base stations. It’s experiential, hands-on learning that will be
even more effective.”
The laboratory also marks a new chapter in UP and
Nokia-Manila TC’s long-standing partnership when the two institutions first
launched the Teach In the University Program with the same aim of raising the
country’s telecommunications education.
“The initial
interaction and knowledge-sharing between our students, faculty and Nokia
engineers is now further enhanced by this facility, which provides
opportunities to experience real-world scenarios towards studying creative and
innovative solutions. The laboratory is also intended to support relevant research
activities in telecommunications engineering and networks as part of our
roadmap,” Marciano added.
“The topnotch
equipment will enable students to have a hands-on training and experience on
radio resource management, radio resource control, packet scheduler, load
control, code allocation, power control, handover control, mobility management,
session management, air interface architectures, cellular systems, and many
other Telecom-specific subjects which naturally wouldn’t be available in books
alone,” said Teodor Drobcsak, head of Nokia-Manila TC.
Nigel Waters, Country
Manager of Philippines, Nokia Networks said Nokia is honored about this new
partnership milestone and believes that the laboratory will be able to augment
the talent that Filipinos have when it comes to telecommunications innovation
and development.
“The laboratories that we have down the road and the
collaboration we have established with the University of the Philippines really
puts the Philippines at the forefront of that development,” Waters said.
Aside from the aim of further improving the engineering
curriculum of UP and giving students the chance to experience firsthand real
end-to-end mobile wireless networks, Drobcsak said the laboratory is also
Nokia’s way of expressing their gratitude to UP for producing the best
telecommunications engineers.
“We have such profound respect and gratitude to the
University of the Philippines for giving us the best talents in software
engineering and telecommunications. By donating this laboratory, we hope that
UP will produce and educate even more talents which will become the future of
the country’s Telecom industry,” said Drobcsak.
Waters said the laboratory will solidify Nokia’s long-term
commitment to UP and the Philippines. “Our collaboration and our support of the
university here really is a mark of how committed we are to the Philippines,
how excited we are to partner with UP and with EEEI, and how the instructional
labs here at UP can help and inspire the next generation of Filipino talents to
really take the leadership position in the area of technology and innovation,”
Waters concludes.
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Nokia invests in technologies important in a world where billions of devices are connected. We are focused on three businesses: network infrastructure software, hardware and services, which we offer through Nokia Networks; location intelligence, which we provide through HERE; and advanced technology development and licensing, which we pursue through Nokia Technologies. Each of these businesses is a leader in its respective field. http://company.nokia.com
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