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I work in a semiconductor company and we have process engineers as PhDs. Development of a semiconductor process has little deep technical work and more about ma
by spectramax 8y ago
I work in a semiconductor company and we have process engineers as PhDs. Development of a semiconductor process has little deep technical work and more about managing suppliers, process characterization and lots of statistics.
But we have folks with deep technical know how and PHD in some esoteric subject of proton-proton collision inside a nuclear reactor core developing ball attach processes on BGA chip packages or working on chip shooters. It makes no sense.
Also, these PhDs are terribly unhappy and usually on H1-B visa locked in and unable to change jobs.
- liquid153 8y agoI am guessing Intel lol
- sevensor 8y agoI used to work in the semiconductor industry, and I left to get a PhD. Unlikely I'd go back. The PhDs we had were a statistician and a materials characterization engineer. The former was ignored and then fired because he kept telling people that their statistical procedures didn't work, and the latter spent a ton of time doing TEM sample prep.
- HenryKissinger 8y ago> The former was ignored and then fired because he kept telling people that their statistical procedures didn't work Why did they hire him then?
- sevensor 8y agoHe was supposed to reassure them that their statistical procedures worked, not explain how they could be fixed. His technical notes were an education for me, but they bruised too many egos.