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Pierce Yungjoon Johnson

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Purdue University's Summer Training on Awareness and Readiness for Semiconductors (STARS) program is a nationally acclaimed microelectronics workforce development initiative. Over its three-year lifespan, STARS provided over 100 students - primarily rising sophomores - with an accelerated education of the chip design process by immersing them in rigorous and open-ended design projects. While the value that STARS provides to its alumni is significant, our goal for it is to reach a wider and more diverse audience of undergraduates, such as students belonging to institutions that lack Purdue's extensive resources. Our proposed solution is to digitalize STARS curriculum and content such that they can be freely shared and used by other microelectronics educators via the popular simulation repository, nanoHUB. While STARS curriculum and content is now formally hosted on nanoHUB as of this year, its adoption by other educators may still be inhibited by lack of resources. Therefore, we conducted a literature review of approximately 40 hours to identify microelectronics education programs being offered by other undergraduate institutions that are similar in scope or scale of STARS. By comparing key features of STARS and similar programs from this literature review, we will be able to make informed refinement to the digitalized content on nanoHUB to facilitate its reception. With the insights gathered, we progress our goal of enhancing both the scalability and quality of STARS to better promote educational pathways towards a career in microelectronics. Keywords: NanoHUB; Semiconductors; Stars; Microelectronics Education; Chip Design

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Purdue University / 2025

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Pierce Yungjoon Johnson