Scaling the Microelectronics Workforce - Peter Bermel, Kerrie Douglas, Vijay Raghunathan and David Janes

The United States not only needs to increase the production of the microelectronics at the heart of virtually everything — it must also plug a huge gap in its microelectronics workforce. By 2029, the U.S. is expected to be short almost 150,000 workers in the semiconductor field, including more than 50,000 engineers. Global competition and supply chain risk are prompting a reshoring of semiconductor production and workforce expertise to the U.S to meet this urgent economic and national security mandate: rapidly build to size the needed workforce in a short period of time. At Purdue, we are showing the way how to quickly, and at scale, develop skilled talent for specific industry sectors, in this case semiconductors. This episode discusses our initiatives with four Purdue faculty whose work is central to our microelectronics workforce development thrust: Peter Bermel, Kerrie Douglas, Vijay Raghunathan and David Janes.

 

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