ISU Engineers work to recruit students, narrow U.S. talent gap in semiconductor workforce
Iowa State University researchers are taking action to help build a semiconductor workforce for the country.
“Today, semiconductor chips are driving the AI revolution, and chip companies are aggressively looking for new talent to meet their growing needs,” said Santosh Pandey, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. “Within Iowa, we have to urgently prepare our students for emerging career paths in the U.S. semiconductor industry.”
How can a university of science and technology such as Iowa State narrow the talent gap that has increasingly shifted overseas? How can it build a workforce that can boost U.S. semiconductor production beyond today’s 12% of global supply? And how can it teach the new artificial intelligence-enabled chip technologies the industry is developing?
