NSF
The solicitation aims to cultivate a broad coalition of researchers and educators from the science and engineering communities that utilizes a holistic, co-design approach to enable rapid progress in new semiconductor technologies. Partnerships between industry and academic institutions are essential to spur innovation and technology transfer, to inform the research needs, and to train the future workforce. The program seeks to fund research and curriculum and workforce development to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at the nation's institutions of higher education to advance semiconductor design and manufacturing.