Indiana is set to put 111 million dollars into a new groundbreaking field. Microelectronics and Nanotechnology programs will be added to the Luddy School, available for all students.
The University secured the investment into these fields and has a massive plan to support their students and country in many ways. For more information click here. One of IU’s professors, Daniel Loveless has been instrumental in leading the charge.
Professor Daniel Loveless talks about IU create, A hub for microelectronic activity, and credits Indiana’s abundance of partnerships for making this all possible. He adds insight into what the $111 million dollars is doing for students.
These programs are designed to correlate directly to real-world applications. The main sectors will be space and military technology, championed by the CHIPS Act, which was recently signed into law. This act forces US companies to support the US research into microelectronics rather than foreign countries.
Indiana, along with collaboration from their partners, including the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), are working together in this field to protect national security. On top of that, this field has health care and automotive applications, and much more.
For the next generation who will eventually employ these jobs, the market is absolutely booming. Professor Loveless said, “People coming in that have kinda targeted education in this will have offers multiple offers lined up guaranteed.”
The numbers don’t lie… with 100,000 jobs projected to be available, students taking up this field will have a grand opening to find jobs after school. Loveless added that out of the 85 undergraduate internships, the pay was significant. Between 24 and 35 dollars an hour.
With Companies such as NASA, Blue Origin, Skywater Technology, and Space X having these types of Jobs, students seem to have a bright future in this field of study.
Indiana University is trying to be at the forefront of this developing field and get its students ahead of the curve. IU Create will be a tech hub, which will be a center for reliable electronics. Directly linked to the work that Professor Loveless teaches. Testing the electronics in extreme environments, such as space or deep in the ocean, for further research of our planet and beyond. Loveless’s students seem to have much love for their professor. James Carpenter gave the credit for the rapid implementation of the plan to the professor.
Graduate Student James Carpenter shares his story of coming into the field. He also sheds light on the vast jobs for prestigious companies that are available.
Students already involved in this program, such as graduate student James Carpenter have already started to adpot protocols that this plan put in place. Carpenter suggests the “influx of money in the field” has been instrumental in furthering his education. Carpenter also mentions that jobs are often exciting opportunities, he has friends working with Blue Origin and several other space companies.
He suggests that learning about microelectronics is “relatively easy” if you’re interested. He promotes the community of people already within the developing field as “some of the nicest people” he’s met.
For undergraduate students, Indiana is planning on launching master’s degrees for related fields in the next few years. As it stand, it seems that as the field of Microelectronics continues to boom, Luddy will too. With the plan in place till 2030, The school of Luddy looks to pioneer education in this sector.
