6/4/2024 Rashid Bashir
Written by Rashid Bashir
An excerpt from an op-ed by Rashid Bashir, Dean of The Grainger College of Engineering, published in Crain's Chicago Business:
We need more students to choose chip design and the manufacturing of tomorrow. We need deeper collaborations between industry, academia and professional educational institutions to grow the collective workforce capacity. Industry professionals teaching this work and the physical tools needed to practice and learn technologies of today and tomorrow. And we need more students, from every background, excited to take on these challenges. Partnerships across universities, community colleges, and institutions serving the underserved will be critical to bridge the gap in demand.
That is why, as part of Illinois’ North American Semiconductor Network (NAScNT) vision, we have begun to rethink and re-imagine the tools, resources, and support we can give our workers as they build toward the future.