If you are interested in details of the undergraduate course and application details consult the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Page . The semiconductor industry is one of the largest industries worldwide. New semiconductor devices and new applications for semiconductors continue to be developed. Increasingly greater numbers of electronic devices are being packed onto a single silicon chip. New methods of continuing this trend are being developed, some of these advances are being made within the Department.
Engineers working in the semiconductor industry require a unique blend of skills.
They must have expertise in a number of disciplines including electronics, silicon chip design and fabrication, semiconductor physics, chemistry, and materials science. The Semiconductor Industry is a major high technology industry in the UK with a high and rapidly increasing demand for graduates with specialist skills relating to semiconductors. In Scotland there is one of the largest concentrations of semiconductor manufacturers in Europe. Although graduates with a Semiconductor Engineering degree will have a specialised training in the semiconductor area, the wide range of expertise in science and engineering which they will acquire during this degree course will prepare them for employment in any area of science or engineering. Since the introduction of the transistor in the 1950s and the development of the silicon chip in the 1970s semiconductors have been increasingly impinging on our lives.