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National Instruments and Yalong Education signed a strategic cooperation agreement

NI (National Instruments, referred to as NI), as a supplier dedicated to providing engineers and scientists with solutions to help them meet the world's toughest engineering challenges, recently announced a partnership with China's leading educational technology equipment company.——Zhejiang Yalong Education has established a strategic partnership to jointly build the Yalong-NI Engineering Innovation Center, aiming to meet the shortage of national skilled personnel training needs. On the basis of strategic cooperation, the two parties will jointly develop a series of practical training equipment that conforms to the concept of modern vocational and technical education.“Provide better service for vocational colleges”This common goal lays a solid foundation. Since last year, the State Council has successively issued the 'Made in China 2025' action program, clearly proposing“Manufacturing Innovation Center”The five major projects headed by it are intended to focus on the transformation and upgrading of key industries, focusing on the basic and common key technologies of the industry, the industrialization of achievements, and personnel training. NI has always been committed to providing sufficient talent reserves for industry innovation, and has successfully held large-scale student competitions with many universities. The strategic cooperation between NI and Yalong is in line with the development direction of Made in China 2025 in ten fields, and is widely used in measurement, testing and control technologies in various industries around the world. In accordance with the requirements of continuous reform and innovation of vocational education and engineering education, NI and Yalong have implemented strong alliances by virtue of their respective advantages, and developed educational equipment, course materials, software development, skill competitions, and teachers in accordance with the overall solution of talent training that integrates teaching, learning, and teaching. Training and other concepts, and jointly develop educational equipment in electronics and automation. The engineering innovation center jointly built by the two parties includes basic technology training area, project application training area, LabVIEW platform Wanliantong training area, engineering innovation training area, and engineer cultural environment. On the basis of the modularization of hardware construction, the Yalong-NI Engineering Innovation Center combines the characteristics of vocational education and engineering education, extracts typical work tasks from practical applications in industries and enterprises, follows the rules of vocational ability development, and develops suitable teaching courses , teaching materials, resources, teacher training courses, etc., while implementing technical skills learning, carry out environmental design, teaching organization innovation, and integrate into the cultivation of students' craftsmanship, engineer project culture, innovation ability and other soft qualities.​​“We are very happy to establish a strategic partnership with Yalong Education, and look forward to providing Chinese vocational colleges with an experiment and training platform for the integration of production and education based on the Engineering Innovation Center.”Chen Jianzhong, Sales Director of NI Greater China, said,“NI has established more than 300 teaching and research laboratories in cooperation with domestic universities. We continue to promote innovative teaching and realize scientific research in colleges and universities, and carry out diversified cooperation with colleges and universities through our own industry-leading technological advantages to help cultivate and improve soft power such as teaching and scientific research in colleges and universities.”

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