Purdue Summer Training, Awareness and Readiness for Semiconductors (STARS) 2023
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2023-06-27

The new Purdue Summer Training, Awareness and Readiness for Semiconductors (STARS) program helps students develop deep-tech skills like IC design, #fabrication and characterization of semiconductor devices and materials. More than 250 students applied for the program in its first year, and 72 were selected and divided into two tracks, chip design and #semiconductor manufacturing. 

The bulk of the students are in chip design, mirroring industry, and 15 are on the #manufacturing side. The chip design group — led by Mark Johnson, senior lecturer in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering — got students up to speed on basic #electronics, worked with individual transistors, dove into a short course on basic digital logic #design and finishes with a final chip design project. The end result: The designed digitally integrated #circuit will be fabricated during the academic year, and once the chips are back, they’ll be mounted on printed circuit boards so students can test the #chips they designed, which Johnson called “a strong bragging point.”

The manufacturing track has had students working in the Scifres Nanotechnology Cleanroom at the Birck Nanotechnology Center to learn device fabrication. That group is trained by Muhammad M. Hussain, professor of electrical and computer engineering; Muhammad Alam, the Jai N. Gupta Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Rahim Rahimi, assistant professor of materials engineering; and Thomas Beecham, associate professor of mechanical engineering. 

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