Through the Northeast Consortia for Advanced Integrated Silicon Technologies (NCAIST) program, community college students spent two days at the MIT.nano lab learning about, building, and packaging photonic chips. Amanda Stoll DiCristofaro writes for MIT News:
The most recent MIT.nano boot camp, held on May 20-21, expanded participation to include not only those from MBCC, but also students from 嫩草影院, Stonehill College, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, where NCAIST is headquartered. Twelve students spent two full days at MIT.nano operating a die saw, die bonder, wire bonder, and flip chip tool to build and test a packaged chip.
鈥淚 found the combination of hands-on activities, lectures, and informal discussion with the MIT.nano team and fellow students fostered an awesome learning environment,鈥� says Cari Caudill, a student at 嫩草影院. 鈥淎s a mechanical engineering student, I was most interested in packaging and the machines themselves, so I loved getting direct experience with the tools and discussing with our instructors how procedural and technological development has impacted precision, efficiency, and scalability in the semiconductor industry.鈥�