Louisiana Tech joins a national initiative to strengthen the semiconductor workforce. Arden Moore, the director of the Institute for Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech, says the school is joining several institutions and organizations in the South Region Node, which is led by the University of Texas at Austin.
“We’ve probably got about a dozen institutes of higher education, so your typical 4-year universities; but importantly, we also have a mix of community college and trade schools,” Moore said.
Moore points out that fabrication facilities need people with various skills. As such, it’s important to include all those different types of schools.
“You’ll also need technicians. You’ll need people who can go and put hands on the machine that they have been trained to maintain, to troubleshoot, to do things that are very well-suited for your community college or trade school-type preparation,” Moore noted.
Moore says a big part of this partnership is the sharing of resources, including training materials and training exercises.
“Things that can be developed and worked out at one place and then shared commonly amongst all the institutions and members; toward, collectively, who are stronger than the sum of their parts,” Moore explained.
Three additional regional nodes of the National Network for Microelectronics will be launched in the future.
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