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I'm surprised that this course was only offered first in 2017 and isn't a degree requirement. I'm not an electrical engineer, so I don't know if these skills ar
by quantumwannabe 5y ago
I'm surprised that this course was only offered first in 2017 and isn't a degree requirement. I'm not an electrical engineer, so I don't know if these skills are taught in a different and less hands-on manner, but it seems like being able to work in a team with tight deadlines and being able to design a chip for manufacturing are key skills that an engineer should have.
- reportingsjr 5y agoIC design/VLSI classes where you do this are offered at most decent universities with an EE department. These classes are a big part of why MOSIS was founded, which has been around for about 40 years now. I'm thinking probably less than 25% of EEs take this track though, because there is a lot more to EE than just IC design.
- rcfox 5y agoYeah, I took a similar course around 2010. It was a fourth year course and had a ton of prerequisites, so you pretty much had to plan to take it from second year. Most EE students I knew decided to specialize in power generation since it was seen as the easiest path to a cushy job.
- opencl 5y agoThere's generally a required class that involves implementing a chip design on an FPGA. A very small fraction of people getting EE degrees actually go into IC design and it would probably be very expensive/a logistical nightmare to put such a large number of students through this type of class.