{"id":5278,"date":"2024-08-17T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/coen-ece\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2024-10-07T09:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T15:08:41","slug":"chips-act-creates-opportunities-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/coen-ece\/2024\/08\/17\/chips-act-creates-opportunities-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIPS Act Creates Opportunities for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the CHIPS Act was introduced in 2020, companies in the semiconductor industry have launched more than 90 projects in 28 states, amounting to nearly $450 billion in private investments (Peterson, 2024). These initiatives are expected to generate tens of thousands of new, high-quality jobs within the U.S. semiconductor industry and hundreds of thousands of associated jobs across the wider U.S. economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The growing need for skilled workers in the semiconductor industry is driving demand for new educational opportunities. Boise State&#8217;s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is answering the call by creating new educational content, including semiconductor processing courses, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/coen-ece\/programs\/certificates\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">undergrad certificates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and a new semiconductor emphasis for grad students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaac Kreft is one of the students currently taking advantage of these new offerings from the ECE Department. A high-achieving undergrad, Kreft is earning his BS in Electrical Engineering and expects to graduate later this year. He\u2019s also working to complete two of the Department\u2019s new certificate programs, one focused on integrated circuit design and the other on semiconductor device physics. As if that wasn\u2019t ambitious enough, Kreft has also decided to enroll in the department\u2019s accelerated master\u2019s program, which allows him to take graduate courses in his final year of undergraduate study and count the credits towards his master of science degree.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-image wp-image--no-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-5279\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/coen-ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2024\/10\/Isaac-Kreft-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kreft profile photo\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kreft served in the Navy as an electrician focused on instrumentation and decided to pursue electrical engineering for a more in-depth understanding of the technical aspects of his work. Interested in hands-on research, Kreft took a position in Dr. Kris Campbell\u2019s research lab. Under Campbell\u2019s supervision, Kreft is working on optically gated transistors, making them into sensors that can be used in water treatment facilities to detect forever chemicals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summer, Kreft was honored to receive the Stellar Engineering Students Graduate Program Scholarship (SEnS GPS), a National Science Foundation S-STEM-funded program. NSF SEnS GPS is a program dedicated to providing financial, social, and academic support to master of science students in engineering who are searching for a close-knit graduate community in which they will be trained to address the perpetually changing needs of modern society.\u00a0 Thanks to this support, Kreft is planning to continue his graduate studies.\u00a0 His future plans include a DRAM internship at Micron next summer and a PhD focused on integrated circuit design and semiconductor devices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019d like to help support scholars like Isaac, donate to the \u201cDepartment of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering Fund\u201d by visiting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/give.boisestate.edu\/pages\/home-2576#open_giving_form=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boise State Giving<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and choosing our fund as the giving destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peterson, D. (2024, April 24). <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sia commends Chips Act incentives for Micron\u2019s manufacturing projects in New York and Idaho<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. SIA News. https:\/\/www.semiconductors.org\/sia-commends-chips-act-incentives-for-microns-manufacturing-projects-in-new-york-and-idaho\/\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the CHIPS Act was introduced in 2020, companies in the semiconductor industry have launched&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":5279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1937,1941,1909,1654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-success","category-department-news","category-student-news","category-student-spotlight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CHIPS Act Creates Opportunities for Students - 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