UAlbany launches three semiconductor engineering graduate programs

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The University at Albany announced the launch of three new semiconductor engineering graduate certificate programs. The programs will aim to prepare students to join the workforce of what experts expect to be a $1 trillion industry by the end of the decade.

Facilitated by UAlbany's College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering (CNSE), the three new certificate programs will be in Semiconductor Manufacturing, Semiconductor Patterning and Processing, and Semiconductor Metrology. Students will have the opportunity to expand their skills and knowledge of semiconductors while working with samples from the Albany NanoTech Complex on Fuller Road.

"The University at Albany is proud to be offering three new graduate certificates in semiconductor engineering that will help provide the semiconductor industry with the skilled workforce it needs to continue to grow in the Capital Region and across New York," said University at Albany President Havidán Rodríguez. "Strong partnerships between industry and higher education — like UAlbany’s partnerships with NY CREATES, IBM, and others — are critical to New York’s continued leadership in the semiconductor industry. As one of the nation’s most diverse public research institutions, we are working to ensure the growth of this industry benefits all New Yorkers."

“The connection between the academic programs and research of CNSE and the semiconductor industry is unsurpassed in this country. By sharing space with the leading chip design and manufacturing companies at Albany NanoTech, the faculty of our Department of Nanoscale Science and Engineering are in daily conversations about the direction and needs of the industry," said CNSE Dean Michele Grimm. These new graduate certificates have been developed in response to those needs, and they are just the first step in our new academic efforts. Additional graduate certificates in business aspects related to the industry as well as other focused technical topics are under development, as well as a growing portfolio of skill-focused microcredentials."

The graduate certificates are available to students for the upcoming 2024 fall semester and can be completed online. Anyone interested in enrolling can visit the UAlbany website.