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RIT awarded $1.5M in federal funds for high-tech workforce training
Students are able to acquire hands-on skills in computer chip development processes in RIT’s Semiconductor Nanofabrication Laboratory. A federal grant will increase RIT’s online workforce development efforts in the sector. (Photo credit: Gabrielle Plucknett Devito/RIT)
Students are able to acquire hands-on skills in computer chip development processes in RIT’s Semiconductor Nanofabrication Laboratory. A federal grant will increase RIT’s online workforce development efforts in the sector. (Photo credit: Gabrielle Plucknett Devito/RIT)
RIT awarded $1.5M in federal funds for high-tech workforce training
Listen to this articleU.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced $3.2 million in federal funding to boost New York-based programs to prepare New York high school and college students for careers in the semiconductor industry.
The awards include nearly $1.5 million for Rochester Institute of Technology to implement a new online certificate program to train students across microelectronics-related educational tracks and $1.7 million for the American Federation of Teachers to expand a program that prepares teachers in school districts across NY to help students get ready for careers in the semiconductor industry.
“It’s all-hands-on-deck to build the workforce of the future and awards like todays will help classrooms across New York get students ready to be the next generation of semiconductor workers,” Schumer said in a release.
RIT’s program will expand the domestic skilled workforce in the semiconductor industry with a focus on creating opportunities for disadvantaged and underrepresented workers to get access to the new jobs being created by new semiconductor industry investments in the U.S. RIT’s goal is to train 555 students at both the bachelor’s and master’s degree levels through a new online certificate program to address workforce shortages in the microelectronics sector.
“Technology is driving unprecedented changes in the way we work,” said RIT President David Munson. “RIT is committed to fostering diversity and removing educational barriers for a new wave of highly skilled workers, who will need to be analytical problem solvers with an ability to adapt to evolving career fields.”
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