In article it is shown that a perspective way of reduction of an acute shortage of the qualified engineering shots in the country is use of innovative forms of interaction of universities and manufacturing installations. Experience of creation on the basis of the enterprises of a machine-building division of Rosatom State corporation of JSC "Machine-building plant "ZiO-Podolsk" and JSC "Petrozavodskmash" of chair "Power Engineering" of NRNU MEPhI is described.

Keywords: interaction, innovative forms, manufacturing installations, universities