Over the next five years, the United States needs at least 50,000 trained semiconductor engineers. It's a staggering number driven by the CHIPS Act's push to return chip manufacturing to American soil and maintain U.S. leadership in chip design. But building fabrication facilities is only half the equation. The real challenge is building the workforce to run them.
Purdue launched its Semiconductor Degrees Program (SDP) in 2022 to help meet this challenge. The program takes a comprehensive approach that prepares students from 25 majors for all sectors of the semiconductor industry.
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