Microelectronics and electronic packaging education and research at Virginia Tech

Instruction and research at Virginia Tech, in the area of Microelectronics and Electronic Packaging, center around a core group of students and faculty in the Microelectronics Laboratory. This group offers courses in microelectronics with a strong emphasis on multichip module design and fabrication, interconnects, and electronic packaging, and include an introductory course in microelectronics as well as several graduate courses in electronic packaging, electronic devices, and microwave circuit design and fabrication. This paper outlines these instructional and research efforts as well as the capabilities of the Microelectronics laboratory. In addition, the courses structure and recent efforts to expand the microelectronics education to include integrated circuit fabrication, as well as advances in power electronic packaging will be discussed in this paper.