Let the chips fall

From the UCLA Newsroom: A federally funded center to train the next generation of microchip designers through the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act has been established at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. The initiative is part of a nationwide effort to address workforce challenges faced by the U.S. semiconductor industry. UCLA Samueli is one of seven inaugural awardees, with funding totaling $11.5 million, of the newly established National Semiconductor Technology Center’s Workforce Center of Excellence announced Sept. 25 by the Biden-Harris administration.

“We are honored that UCLA has been selected to be the home for the new Center for Education of Microchip Designers,” said Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park, the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean at UCLA Samueli. “We look forward to educating and training a critically needed talent pool of highly skilled integrated circuit designers and engineers.”

Led by UCLA Samueli electrical and computer engineering professor Behzad Razavi, the new Center for Education of Microchip Designers, or CEMiD, will receive $2 million over the next two years to provide comprehensive training in analog- and digital-chip design to engineering students and practicing engineers...

Full story at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/center-for-education-of-microchip-designers-launches-ucla-samueli.