St. Petersburg to Train Specialists in Industrial Digital Twins
A new graduate program will focus on managing corporate data and visualizing information across the entire product life cycle.
The Peredovaya inzhenernaya shkola LETI (Advanced Engineering School at Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”) has launched a new academic program to train specialists in digital twins for industrial systems, the university’s press service said.
The master’s program, Upravleniye proyektami vnedreniya tsifrovykh dvoynikov promyshlennykh sistem (Project Management for Implementing Industrial Digital Twins), is designed to prepare department heads and senior specialists involved in designing and deploying industrial process management systems across multiple sectors.
A Strong Focus on Practice
Graduates of the program will be able to oversee innovative projects end to end—from conducting market analysis and preliminary project assessments to defining technological architecture and commercializing implementation results.
The curriculum will follow a modular format with a strong emphasis on hands-on experience. As early as the first semester, graduate students will conduct the first stage of a pre-project assessment at major industrial enterprises in St. Petersburg. During these placements, trainees will identify segments of the production cycle where implementing digital twins would be most effective. At the end of the program, students will complete a research project.
An important part of the curriculum will involve working with domestic software platforms. For pre-project analysis and corporate data management, students will use the Lotus PLM platform developed by ASCON. Business process and enterprise architecture modeling will be carried out using the Business Studio software suite, while predictive models will be created using the StatSoft analytics platform.
