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A US semiconductor industry in crisis needs a workforce that doesn’t yet exist
As the federal government spurs the re-shoring of semiconductor manufacturing in the US, the industry faces a hard fact: schools haven't been training the workers.
Semiconductor fabs and development facilities evoke images of workers in white coveralls, filtration masks and cleanrooms where humidity, temperature and pressure conditions must constantly be maintained. Cole Lush, a senior undergraduate student at Purdue in SCALE’s aerospace program, currently helps manufacture chips for updating older US ballistic missiles; it’s a job he got after his father, a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel who worked with defense and data systems, urged him to pursue it. As a part of that SCALE, Lush was offered a summer intern program and hired by GRC Integrated Systems, a small consulting firm that works with the US Naval Surface Warfare Centers.
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