Introduction to Plasma-Aided Manufacturing shows the semiconductor plasma-based manufacturing processes that are so vital to the fabrication of integrated circuits or microchips. It explores the complexity of plasma-based manufacturing tools which include vacuum, RF power delivery, gas delivery, wafer transport, process chamber and system controller. It also shows that manufacturing microchips requires teams of technicians and engineers to execute each step in the manufacturing process.

A team from Spansion/AMD talks about their roles and the need to have both the science, math, and technical knowledge, as well as the oral and written communication skills to function as an effective team member.

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Looking for summer manufacturing workshops, conferences, or other professional development opportunities? The list below contains some highlighted events from the NCME's National Events Calendar. If you would like to view a complete list of events, click here. New events are added continuously!

Essential Teaching Seminars for Engineering Faculty
June 1-3, 2006 - Cambridge, MA

Planning Lean Layouts with SLP: A practical working seminar based on the world's most widely used layout method
June 12-14, 2006 - Kansas City, MO

Improving Design Education with Simulation
June 14-16, 2006 - Dayton, OH

2006 ASEE Annual Conference
June 18-21, 2006 - Chicago, IL

STEPS: Science Technology & Engineering Preview Summer Camp for Girls
Various dates and locations throughout the summer. Visit the homepage above to find a STEPS event near you.

2006 National Conference on Educational Robotics
July 7-10, 2006 - Norman, OK

Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education 2006-07
July 9-14, 2006 - Washington, DC

Conducting Rigorous Research in Engineering Education
July 16-21, 2006 - Golden, CO

Remote-Controlled Lab Workshop
July 17-21 & 24-28, 2006 (Two separate workshops) - Queensborough, NY

International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE 2006)
July 23-28, 2006 - San Juan, PR

SAME-TEC 2006
July 24-27, 2006 - Albuquerque, NM

Collaborative Design and Rapid Manufacturing training seminar
August 7-11, 2006 - Dayton, OH & Ventura, CA

The Next Industrial Revolution: Nanotechnology and Manufacturing
August 23-24, 2006 - Oak Ridge, TN

The next MERC webinar is entitled Micro to Nano: An Introduction, scheduled for early May 2006. Dr. Matthias Pleil, Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), will introduce webinar participants to Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nanotechnology. Dr. Pleil will also compare and contrast these hot emerging technologies.

Also in the works for the near future, due to popular demand, is a second Teaching Lean Manufacturing webinar.

MERC would also like ask you, the MERC user, for your suggestions for future webinars. MERC wants to provide you with webinar topics that are interesting and relevant to you. Please give us your suggestions by clicking here or by simply replying to this email.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Published by the NCME. Copyright 2006. All rights reserved.
MERC and the NCME are funded by the National Science Foundation.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.