The PRC is developing programs not only at the undergraduate and graduate levels, but also for pre-college students and high school teachers, and for professional engineers. Graduate Education Engineering graduate students historically emerge from universities with a somewhat narrow set of skills, and many of these students lack a more global and comprehensive system-level perspective. The internship consists of either a domestic or international employment experience. The rapid rate of technology advances in electronics packaging makes continuing education essential for industrial practitioners. The PRC seeks to support such lifelong learning through a variety of short courses, seminars, and colloquia, as well as by organizing workshops and conferences.
Many professional engineers are interested in continuing education through distance learning.
Therefore, in the near future the PRC plans to offer both short courses and a variety of conventional courses using video and web-based technology. The PRC is committed to improving the quality of its engineering graduates, and as a consequence, is also committed to improving the awareness of pre-college students and teachers of electronics careers. For that reason, the PRC provides on-campus research experience opportunities to several high school students and teachers every year. The plan involves taking industry's need for the next-generation of systems and putting faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and industry engineers together to explore new scientific frontiers, demonstrate process integration, fabricate functional prototypes, and foster the educational development of a new breed of globally competitive engineers. This comprehensive collaboration plan involves industry in every facet of the PRC, from identification of next-generation needs to delivery of functional prototypes.