Cross-Training Technicians & Engineers for Semiconductor Manufacturing

美国经济的半导体（S/C）制造业正在迅速增长。然而，为这一主要经济部门提供训练有素的劳动力的能力严重滞后于需求。此外，随着对技术人员的技术和角色要求的增加，他们在统计和单元过程操作领域的核心知识越来越多地与S/C工厂的工程师重叠。相反，新的工程师，谁可能成为负责技术监督在工厂设置，需要更好地了解技术人员的工作范围，以及接受更多的实践培训期间，他们的学术课程。因此，有利的是，在共享的类似工厂的环境中，对S/C工程师和技术人员进行交叉培训，以选择设备密集型课程，而无需人为地强迫各自课程之间的完整衔接。这种并行培训，分为单元模块，降低了每个学生的实验室成本，从而降低了培训成本，同时也促进了：（1）现有工厂技术人员和工程师的交叉培训，终身学习，（2）社区学院和大学教师的交叉培训，以及（3）后来选择从事工程职业的技术人员的学术迁移。 在这个项目中，一个由三所大学和三个社区学院系统组成的联盟，在三个相邻的州，每个州都有S/C制造业作为经济背景，正在促进技术人员和工程师的并排培训，通过开发，利用和评估计算机辅助课程模块来支持，这些模块将集成到工厂样的实验室和相关课程中。这些模块将涵盖S/C单元流程及其从技术人员和工程角度的设施需求。多媒体模块被设计为独立运行或耦合到一个多层次的制造模拟器包。 它们可以满足真实的、模拟或虚拟工厂式实验室的培训需求，也可以用于评估。

The semiconductor (S/C) manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy is growing rapidly. However, the ability to supply a well-trained workforce for this major economic sector is severely lagging the demand. Furthermore, as the technical and role demands for technicians increase, their core knowledge in the areas of statistics and unit-process operations increasingly overlaps that of engineers in an S/C plant. Conversely, new engineers, who may become responsible for technician oversight in a factory setting, need to better understand the job scope of technicians, as well as receive more hands-on training during their academic program. It is thus advantageous to cross-train S/C engineers and technicians in shared factory-like settings for selected equipment-intensive courses, without artificially forcing complete articulation between respective curricula. Such side-by-side training, broken into unit modules, decreases per-student lab costs, and thus training costs, while also facilitating: (1) cross-training of existing factory technicians and engineers, for lifelong learning, (2) cross-training of community college and university faculty, and (3) academic migration of technicians who later choose to pursue engineering careers. In this project, a consortium of three universities and three community college systems in three contiguous states, each having S/C manufacturing as an economic backdrop, is facilitating side-by-side training of technicians and engineers, bolstered by the development, utilization, and evaluation of computer-aided curriculum modules to be integrated into factory-like labs and related courses. These modules will cover S/C unit processes and their facility demands from both technician and engineering perspectives. The multimedia modules are being designed to function either independently or coupled to a multilevel manufacturing simulator package. They can serve training needs in real, mock, or virtual factory-like labs, or they can be used for assessment.