UCSB & SBCC Join Forces to Expand Workforce Program

The expansion of CCPRIME will enhance relationships between industry and community college students and faculty.

September 9, 2024
Galan Moody
Galan Moody

Eddleman Center for Quantum Innovation faculty member Galan Moody co-PI on the proposal to expand CCPRIME

 

Excerpt from UCSB Current Science + Technology

UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College have joined forces to expand a program that provides critical workforce pathways for micro/nanotechnology and semiconductor manufacturing. Supported by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education’s Advanced Technological Education program and Intel, the collaboration builds on existing cleanroom training at UCSB’s California NanoSystems Institute to provide SBCC’s students and faculty with access to training and experience to help fill a demonstrated need in the high-tech industry.

“With increasing investment in semiconductor technologies in the U.S., it’s really important that we also support a talented and diverse semiconductor workforce,” said Galan Moody, an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering at UCSB and a co-PI on the proposal. “This partnership does exactly that by providing students with hands-on cleanroom training, certification and pathways to industry jobs.” 

 

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