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Rethinking electronics industry workforce development: case studies on high school and middle school students with semiconductor design and advanced electronics prototyping
Edwards, Nathan J. Kiss, Steven Grizzle, Carter Edwards, Asher Sekar, Vaanathi Branning, John Meadows, Brett Kassem, Mohamed McGivern, Michael
Edwards, Nathan J.
Kiss, Steven
Grizzle, Carter
Edwards, Asher
Sekar, Vaanathi
Branning, John
Meadows, Brett
Kassem, Mohamed
McGivern, Michael
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2023-05
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For more than ten years the United States has experienced a major gap in skilled workforce availability with over 100,000 unfilled jobs for the electronics industry, yet the majority of talent pipeline discussions only consider university-level matriculation and overlook the ability of high school and middle school students to learn and contribute to electronics innovation and industry. The large misconception is that students must complete a post-secondary degree or education program to start contributing to electronics innovation or to begin their career. This paper provides two case studies that challenges those assumptions and establishes what high school students and middle school students can accomplish with mentoring, streamlined coursework, and experiential learning through applied engineering projects in semiconductor design and advanced electronics prototyping. By rethinking how to conduct STEM education using observations from these case studies, closing the sustained U.S. electronics workforce gap can become more of a reality.
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