LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Rhodes State College will be purchasing new equipment for their new semiconductor certificate program coming to campus.
The State of Ohio awarded Rhodes State a $113,000 grant to invest in the new technology. The technology consists of various vacuum and gas equipment that will allow students to learn and train in realistic semiconductor manufacturing environments.
"It's a six unit trainer that trains students how to work in a clean room environment, and so, it features vacuum and gas pumps that students will actually don the bunny suits, those hazmat-looking kind of suits, to make sure that they don't grit up any kind of chip or any device or piece of material, and they'll learn actually how to work in that environment like they would in clean room manufacturing a semiconductor," says David Haus, Dean of Technology and Liberal Studies, Rhodes State College.
Rhodes State expects the first students of the program to begin classes Fall Semester 2024.
