Microelectronics Education

Dear participant in the second European Workshop on Microelectronics Education, It is a pleasure to present you the Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Microelectronics Education and to welcome you at the Workshop. The Organising Committee is very pleased that it has found several key persons, with highly appreciated levels of knowledge and expertise, willing to present Invited Contributions to this Workshop. We have striven for an interesting spread over important areas like the expected demands for educated engineers in the wide field of Microelectronics, and Microsystems, in European industry (and beyond!) and innovations in method and focus of our educational programmes. This is the second European Workshop in this area; the first one was held in Grenoble in France in the spring of 1996. It was the initiative of Georges Kamarinos, Nadine Guillemot and Bernard Courtois to organise this Workshop because they felt that Microelectronics was 'at a turning point' to become the core of the largest industry in the world and that this warranted a serious (re-)consideration of our educational imperatives. It is now two years since and their feeling has become reality: nobody doubts that by the year 2000 the microelecnonics industry will be the largest industrial sector. It is also obvious that because of that and because of the predicted shortfall of educated engineers we must continuously reconsider the quality of our educational approach.

Klappentext

This volume contains the contributions presented at the 2nd European Workshop on Microelectronics Education. They give an overview of current initiatives in Europe (and beyond) on innovation in microelectronics and microsystems teaching. The book details the desired focus of curriculum content as viewed by the major industrial players, describes innovative methods in teaching, lists several multi-media initiatives in (distance) learning and virtual laboratories and virtual campus environments. br/ The book focuses on university and polytechnic course levels.

Inhalt
Foreword. Session A. Industrial Outlook. Session P1. Industrial Projects/New Concepts. Session P2. Emerging Fields/Technology. Session B. Emerging Fields. Session C. New Concepts in Teaching. Session P3. Multimedia in Microelectronics Education. Session P4. Design Innovations. Session D. International Outlook. Session P5. Multi Media in Microelectronics Education. Session P6. Design Innovations. Session E. Multimedia. Session F. Design Innovations.