RPI students are provided with the opportunity to gain state-of-the-art real-world knowledge in the semiconductor chips area through two RPI-Industry workforce training courses. In the spring semester, ECSE faculty James Lu led the partnership with GlobalFoundries to offer a unique industry-focused course on microelectronics manufacturing. In the fall semester, James recruited 23 experts from 9 companies and a partnering university to deliver lectures on materials, metrology, and equipment in semiconductor manufacturing. These courses attracted students all across RPI and received rave course evaluation feedback.
On November 30, the RPI community and partners from the semiconductor industry celebrate the successful completion of RPI-industry semiconductor workforce courses. James Lu, Dean of Engineering Shekhar Garde, and Vice President of Research gave remarks. David Medeiros, Senior Director at Entegris, and a co-organizer and a lecturer of the fall course, exhorted the gathering with a short talk on Toward Sustainable Semiconductor Manufacturing. ECSE Head John Wen handed out recognition plaques to all the industry lecturers.
The spring course, Topics in Microelectronics Manufacturing, involved lectures from 11 technical leaders in GlobalFoundries. Students from multiple disciplines (Electrical Engineering, Computer and Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics) and levels (48 undergraduate students, 22 Graduate students) completed the course.
The fall course, Materials, Equipment and Metrology for Semiconductor Manufacturing, involved lectures from 23 Technical Leaders from 10 industry-leading companies and an affiliated university (Entegris, IBM, ASML, TEL, GlobalFoundries, Applied Materials, Dupont, SCREEN, NVidia, SUNY-RF). Students from multiple disciplines (Electrical Engineering, Computer and Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems and Management Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, and Physics) and levels (29 undergraduate students, 32 Graduate students) completed the course.