Optoelectronic Device Inspection and Test Station

光电器件检验测试站

• 批准号: 9650350
• 负责人: Bahram Nabet
• 金额: $ 2.2万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-01 至 1999-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650350&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Optoelectronic; Device; Inspection; Test; Station

Despite the strategic role of semiconductor manufacturing in American industry, teaching of courses related to optoelectronic devices is not popular in undergraduate curricula. These courses often appear either too theoretical and abstract or too skill oriented, with students receiving only vocational training. Most laboratory courses at best reiterate some theoretical concepts, but mostly test rather than fabricate devices. This scenario is particularly troublesome for nontraditional students, including those in community colleges and midcareer or experienced workers intending to update their skills. For both groups, these courses appear theoretical, with little relevance to the manufacturing process. In response to these needs, a course has been developed that has two unique major features: it proposes an integrated approach to the teaching of optoelectronic devices whereby students design, fabricate, and test a device of their choice and it enables nonhomogeneous groups of students consisting of nontraditional, associate degree, undergraduate, and graduate students to work in teams responsible for all aspects of design and fabrication. The scenario played out in this course is a replica of concurrent engineering in the work place. What holds the team together is the product, the device, and what separates them is their responsibilities and backgrounds. All the equipment and supplies necessary for the fabrication of the devices are provided to the students in the microfabrication clean-room facility. Through this project, the department is acquiring equipment for testing the devices that students fabricate. These instruments enable the students to probe and test the electronic and optical response of their products.

尽管半导体制造业在美国工业中具有战略作用，但与光电器件相关的课程在本科课程中并不受欢迎。这些课程往往显得过于理论化和抽象，或者过于以技能为导向，学生只接受职业培训。大多数实验课程最多只是重申一些理论概念，但主要是测试而不是制造设备。这种情况对非传统的学生来说尤其麻烦，包括社区大学的学生、职业中期或想要更新技能的有经验的工人。对于这两类人来说，这些课程都是理论性的，与制造过程几乎没有关系。为了满足这些需求，我们开发了一门课程，它有两个独特的主要特点：它提出了一种集成的光电器件教学方法，学生可以根据自己的选择设计、制造和测试器件，它使由非传统、副学士、本科生和研究生组成的非同质学生群体能够在负责设计和制造各个方面的团队中工作。本课程的场景是工作场所并行工程的复制品。将团队凝聚在一起的是产品和设备，而将他们分开的是他们的职责和背景。在微加工洁净室设施中，为学生提供制造设备所需的所有设备和用品。通过这个项目，该部门正在获得测试学生制造的设备的设备。这些仪器使学生能够探测和测试他们的产品的电子和光学响应。