What is the DOCMEN Project?
The main purpose of the DOCMEN Project is the modernization of academic curricula in the field of microelectronics through developing innovative courses and methodologies using the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), the three-cycle system, and the recognition of degrees.
The DOCMEN Project’s aim is to reform curricula in study courses related to microelectronics at higher educational institutions in the partner countries – Armenia, Israel, and Kazakhstan.
This goal is achieved through the cooperation of the partner countries with European partners and industrial project participants. DOCMEN is a multinational project and is coordinated by the Cracow University of Technology. Find out more about the DOCMEN Project here.
Prof. Adam Teman
Prof. Adam Teman is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and a Co-Director of the Emerging Nanoscaled Circuits and Systems (EnICS) Labs Impact Center at Bar-Ilan University (BIU). He has been a faculty member at BIU since 2015.
Prof. Teman was a 2020 recipient of the prestigious Krill Prize, awarded by the Wolf Foundation for Excellence in Scientific Research.
He was granted his PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in 2014 and completed his Postdoctoral Research at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in October 2015. Originally from Portland, Oregon, he has lived in Israel for 34 years.
Prof. Teman got involved in the Erasmus+ DOCMEN Program in 2016 soon after he joined BIU and has been heading the program ever since.
Prof. Adam Teman Shares his Thoughts about the DOCMEN Program
I joined the project at a very early stage in my professional career (several months after becoming a faculty member) and it gave me the opportunity to be involved in a multinational project focusing on education.
The main reasons I decided to get involved in developing the DOCMEN project were two-fold: International collaboration, which is always beneficial to any university that wants to remain at the top of its game, and building education in the field to enable students and academics to expand their horizons.
The main benefits of our participation in the program were significant in that it provided us with the opportunity and framework to develop new courses with advanced equipment for recording and preparing the courses; and it also enabled us to create and nurture some valuable international collaborations, most importantly with Prof. Samvel Shoukourian of Yerevan State University and Prof. Danilo Demarchi of Politechnico Di Torino. Both also visited BIU during the project and we were privileged that they were able to give lectures to our students.
DOCMEN meeting in Turin: L-R: Prof. Danilo Demarchi, Politechnico Di Torino;
Yehuda Rudin, Research Center Manager, EnICS Labs, Bar-Ilan University;
Prof. Adam Teman, Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University
Two of my most memorable experiences during the program were traveling to Yerevan in Armenia and Turin in Italy for project meetings and connecting with Professors Shoukourian (Yerevan) and Demarchi (Turin) and touring the local universities, which were both very impressive. Finding out more about the start-up accelerator at Politechnico Di Torino was also exciting.
Becoming involved with Erasmus and the Erasmus+ program has been an incredible experience, and the coordinators of the Erasmus+ program, Elena Eingorn, and Daniel Schuval, were incredible and provided great support for carrying out this project, I highly recommend working with them in the future.
