Industrial sectors are desirous to acquire skills that fit their needs. The traditional approach is to hire engineers who with their fundamentals in place then go on to acquire, in-house, specific skills for the sector. However, when the profession has a specific and consistent technical and scientific base, training in the company structure can take on an awesome scale, both in terms of costs and also capacity such as finding and hiring training officers, managing the personal training schemes … Creating a university Chair (teaching and research) seems an appropriate move to meet these needs.
