Departments Corporate View

Fujitsu and The School of Management:

By Ron Martin, COO and Executive Vice President, Fujitsu Network 
Communications, Inc.

Fujitsu prides itself on a long-standing tradition of giving back to the 
communities in which we live and work. Our parent company in Japan, 
Fujitsu Limited, makes it a company policy to spend a portion of the 
annual earnings improving the educational base of the surrounding 
community. We are grateful for the ability to do the same at Fujitsu 
Network Communications here in Richardson, as a Strategic Partner to UTD's 
School of Management (SOM). When the educational institutions and 
corporations of our community come together to share information, 
resources, and research, we clinch success for the Telecom Corridor and 
the Richardson community as a whole.

As a Strategic Partner, Fujitsu's contribution to UTD and the SOM is 
multifaceted. We support the SOM financially as it promotes excellence 
through dean's scholarships, faculty research, and start-up funds for new 
programs within the School. Corporate officers of Fujitsu show support by 
actively participating in the UTD President's Circle, Development Board 
and The School of Management's Advisory Council. Through this close-knit 
relationship with the SOM, our leaders shape the educational programs 
offered by The School of Management to develop a well-rounded, strong 
workforce for the future. This influence provides a pool of business-
trained talent for us. Fujitsu recruits heavily from UTD, seeking out 
talented individuals through job fairs and intern and cohort programs. 
Through these programs, we cultivate relationships with these business-
minded students, which is a win-win situation for everyone involved.

Fujitsu is literally innovating at the speed of thought, with advances 
being made daily in the telecommunications field. The mission of our 
photonics department is to stay on the cutting edge of innovation in the 
transmission of data via light. Thanks to recent advances in the photonics 
field, Fujitsu successfully completed the Terabit Challenge - a real-time 
test, facilitated by one of our biggest customers, that was a field trial 
of a dense wavelength division multiplexing system. The super-high 
bandwidth systems utilized in the Terabit Challenge are the future of 
optical transport networks. By tapping into the latest photonics 
technology, we effectively met the challenge. Fujitsu has extensive 
manufacturing, research, and development capabilities that allow us to 
develop product and technology advances, so we remain in the forefront of 
the telecommunications industry. Keeping each of our highly skilled 
employees constantly focused on the ever-changing technological horizon is 
essential when developing the products of the future. We rely on our 
partnerships with educational institutions to keep future employees 
abreast of the changing environment.

In addition, we support UTD by financing higher education for employees as 
a benefit of working for Fujitsu. This encourages employees to attend 
postgraduate classes and helps boost enrollment at local schools. The MBA 
program allows many of our high-tech and engineering-minded employees to 
supplement their technical education with practical business skills. 
Fujitsu is interested in developing well-rounded employees with a strong 
combination of technical and management skills. Employees appreciate the 
availability of programs tailored specifically for companies like Fujitsu, 
such as the Executive MBA Program, which allows busy execs to attend 
classes and continue to work full time. Employing talented people with the 
portfolio of skills necessary to help us shape the future of the 
telecommunications industry is vital to Fujitsu's continued success.

Through Fujitsu's partnership with the SOM, both parties are able to 
address our overlapping needs and further our objectives. More 
importantly, we are able to shape the community that surrounds us and give 
future employees a glimpse of what the constantly changing technological 
horizon holds. As a member of one of the fastest growing industries in the 
world today, Fujitsu is proud to be affiliated with a university that 
remains mindful of the constantly evolving world of technology.