Summer program helps students develop skills for growing semiconductors industry

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —

Devin Singh always has been interested in chips.

He’d worked on some personal projects in the past making emulators for consoles like Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, and he was interested in the process of combining simple components into making a functional machine that could do “cool things,” like play video games.

An introduction to semiconductors course in his first year at Purdue University provided a glimpse at how chips worked and what they could do, but Singh was hoping an intensive eight-week summer program would provide an in-depth look.

More than halfway through the Purdue Summer Training on Awareness and Readiness for Semiconductors, Singh has found the program has done exactly that.

Read more on the College of Engineering website.

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Media contact: Brian Huchel, bhuchel@purdue.edu

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