TUES: The Development and Assessment of a New Test and Product Engineering Certificate Program

罗斯-霍尔曼理工学院正在与当地工业界合作，开发测试和产品工程证书课程。半导体行业需要测试和产品工程师来确保小的制造缺陷不会影响集成电路芯片的性能。半导体工业的惊人进步以增加测试难度为代价，带来了令人难以置信的性能。测试和产品工程师的学习曲线是漫长而缓慢的，很少有大学为学生提供这方面的背景知识。为了满足这一工业需求，该项目正在开发两门测试和产品工程课程，其中包括强烈的动手实验部分，以支持测试和产品工程证书课程。强大的工业投入确保课程和实验室与工业需求相关。教育研究专业知识确保课程和实验室能够提高学生的高级思维技能、创造力和解决问题的能力。该项目采用了一种新颖的、以行业为中心的评估策略，以确定课程是否达到了减少学生在集成电路行业生产所需时间的目标。正在开发的材料可以让其他大学采用这些课程，即使他们没有必要的昂贵的实验室设备来进行动手实验。

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is partnering with local industry in developing a certificate program in Test and Product Engineering. Test and product engineers are needed in the semiconductor industry to ensure that small manufacturing defects do not impact the performance of integrated-circuit chips. Staggering improvements in the semiconductor industry have resulted in devices with incredible performance at the cost of increasing test difficulty. The learning curve for test and product engineers is long and slow, and few universities provide students with background in this area.To address this industrial need, this project is developing two Test and Product Engineering courses with an intense hands-on laboratory component to support a certificate program in Test and Product Engineering. Strong industrial input is ensuring that the courses and laboratories are relevant to industry needs. Educational research expertise is ensuring that the courses and laboratories are improving students' higher-order thinking skills, creativity and problem-solving abilities. The project is applying a novel, industry-centered assessment strategy to determine whether the courses meet their goal of reducing the time it takes for students to be productive in the integrated-circuit industry. Materials are being developed to allow other universities to adopt these courses even if they do not have the expensive lab equipment necessary to perform the hands-on labs.