From the course: The Challenge of Scale: Semiconductor Innovation and Manufacturing

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From the course: The Challenge of Scale: Semiconductor Innovation and Manufacturing

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- Of the 14 areas of investment by the US to support national defense science and technology strategy. Microelectronics will see the largest increase in funding in 2023 toward advancing critical technologies. Welcome to this course on semiconductors. My name is Dona Weinstein, and I'm a professor in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. My area of research is in microelectromechanical systems, which is a subset of microelectronics and uses a lot of semiconductor devices and physics to enable new functionality in CMOS technology. It's been a very exciting time in the field of semiconductors, which is perhaps why you are tuning in to learn more about it. In addition to my faculty position, I also served over the past four years as Associate Dean for graduate education in the College of Engineering, and we've had a lot of engagement across academia, industry, and the government to look holistically at how to bring all of these forces together to advance semiconductor technology for the nation. I have also had an opportunity to serve as senior research fellow at the Crock Institute for Tech Diplomacy, getting a sense of the policy aspects and diplomacy aspects that are necessary in order to work within our country's framework and with other countries to secure semiconductor capacity, resilience, and the workforce to support that in the near future. So let's dive in to learn more about semiconductor physics devices, fabrication policy and marketing, and everything in between.

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