Next Generation Microelectronics Research Center (NGeM)

A group of electrical engineering seniors are developing a high-efficiency solar cell, an individual unit of a solar panel that converts sunlight to electricity, in the college’s state-of-the-art clean room. The solar cell will act as a tool to open access to undergraduate students interested in working in semiconductor manufacturing and in a clean room setting.

Next Generation Microelectronics Research Center (NGeM)

Building our professional semiconductor manufacturing workforce nationwide, the Next Generation Microelectronics Research Center (NGeM) provides world-class undergraduate and graduate education programs and research across the field of microelectronics.

University of Idaho College of Engineering students and faculty engage in industry-sponsored research projects funded by Micron, the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Defense, among others.

Our graduates go on to careers that revitalize domestic memory chip manufacturing and mediate supply chain issues in the U.S.

Training and certificate programs offer integrated expertise in microelectronic device design, fabrication and packaging, cybersecurity, plant safety and related technologies. Those technologies include semiconductor physics, electrochemistry, corrosion and their applications for semiconductor industry.

The center provides an interdisciplinary workspace for STEM education across all disciplines in engineering and science.

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University of Idaho’s College of Engineering works with industry leaders nationwide to strengthen our professional semiconductor manufacturing workforce.

Our students and faculty engage in industry-sponsored research projects funded by Micron, the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Defense, among others.

A group of electrical engineering seniors are developing a high-efficiency solar cell, an individual unit of a solar panel that converts sunlight to electricity, in the college’s state-of-the-art clean room. The solar cell will act as a tool to open access to undergraduate students interested in working in semiconductor manufacturing and in a clean room setting.

Semiconductor scholarships

Full-tuition scholarships for students pursuing our college’s semiconductor design and fabrication certificate programs and expanded microelectronics curriculum.

Meet our nationally recognized faculty

  • Feng Li

    Micron Endowed Chair in Microelectronics, NGeM Director, FIB/SEM Director

  • Eric Aston

    Professor

  • Lyudmyla Barannyk

    Associate Professor

  • Leah Bergman

    Professor

  • Herbert Hess

    Department Chair, Professor

  • Michael Maughan

    Associate Professor

  • Gabriel Potirniche

    Associate Dean, Professor

  • You Qiang

    Professor

  • Mark F. Roll

    NGeM Outreach Manager, Research and Clinical Faculty

  • Ting-Yen Shih

    Associate Professor

  • Dennis Sullivan

    Professor

  • Andreas E. Vasdekis

    Associate Professor

  • Thomas Williams

    Clinical Professor

  • Ata Zadehgol

    Professor