ASU is Phoenix’s “secret weapon” for advancing local microelectronics industry (Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego)

See ASU microelectronics workforce development featured in the Financial Times

Modern devices across industries depend on microelectronics, enabling advances in communications, clean energy computing, defense, electric vehicles and transportation, healthcare and much more. The microelectronics industry is growing fast and seeking workers with technical and non-technical skills to help meet this demand.

Whether you are a working professional already in the industry, have a career in another industry, or are currently working toward a degree, ASU’s digital badges and certificates will help you to obtain the knowledge and skills to pursue in-demand jobs. Running the gamut from technical skills essential to advanced microelectronics manufacturing to business skills like managing microelectronics supply chains, ASU’s digital badges and certificates combine flexibility and on-demand content developed in partnership with industry to position learners for success in careers of the future.

To find more microelectronics training and education programs offered at ASU view the full catalog.

Additive Manufacturing - Microelectronics

Learn about the growing field of additive manufacturing through an introduction to six different processes widely used in the microelectronics industry. This specialization is designed for learners interested in the applied basics of additive manufacturing processes and designs, including specific 3D printing methods.

Certificate

Anti-Fragile Supply Chain Design

This course trains current and future supply chain managers to identify risks and improve the resilience of microelectronics supply chains using cutting edge approaches in AI, machine learning, digital analytics and more.

Digital badge

Battery Technologies - Microelectronics

This Battery Technologies specialization builds an in-depth understanding of batteries for applications in microelectronics and electric vehicles, addressing battery applications, architecture, cell chemistries, battery charging, battery management Systems and more.

Certificate

Data Analytics Methods

This course provides training and predictive modeling for business settings, including the microelectronics industry. The course culminates in a capstone project that gives learners the practice and confidence necessary to connect, explore, and analyze data sources.

Digital badge

Data Science

The data science certificate program combines the strengths of database skills with interdisciplinary computational statistics with application in business and technical roles in microelectronics. The program trains students to extract insights from complex datasets using a hands-on approach.

Certificate

Design of Experiments

The Design of Experiments Specialization offers training in the experimental tools and methods that are widely used in the microelectronics industry to improve products and processes. The four-course specialization is offered in a fully online, asynchronous format that provides maximum flexibility for current workers.

Certificate

Designing Anti-Fragile Microelectronics Supply Chains

Microelectronic design, fabrication, manufacturing, and transportation networks extend farther across the globe each day. Learn crucial skills to strengthen each link of these increasingly long and complex supply chains with the Designing Anti-Fragile Microelectronics Supply Chains certificate.

Digital badge

Engineering Project Management

ASU’s Engineering Project Management Certification, developed and delivered by world-renowned faculty of the Fulton Schools of Engineering, equips workers with foundational knowledge and understanding of project management fundamentals and best practices widely used in the microelectronics industry and advanced manufacturing.

Industry certification

Foundations of Supply Chain Management

Unlock the foundational and advanced knowledge you need to tackle, resolve and manage complex problems that confront supply chain managers in the microelectronics industry and beyond through data-driven approaches that increase efficiency, adaptability and sustainability of business practices.

Certificate

Fundamentals of Sustainable Supply Chains

In this course, you will learn how supply chain management, sustainability, and social responsibility work together to benefit companies in the microelectronics industry and beyond by exploring the fundamentals of sustainable supply chains to improve productivity and increase cost savings.

Digital badge

Future Trends in the Semiconductor Industry

Improve your understanding of current and future trends in the semiconductor industry through curriculum that addresses consumer and industrial applications of microelectronics, technology drivers, industrial processes, supply chains and overviews of materials for semiconductor fabrication.

Digital badge

Global Context of Semiconductor Supply Chains

This course explores the linkages across global semiconductor supply chains and addresses the competencies and specialized knowledge necessary for semiconductor supply chain management.

Digital badge

Hazardous Materials and Waste Management

This certificate provides current and prospective employees of multiple industries, including microelectronics, with a comprehensive and practical curriculum of study in hazardous materials management. It is targeted to environmental professionals who engage in management and transportation of hazardous materials and waste and includes several industry-required trainings.

Certificate

Introduction to Quality and Program Management

This course offers students the ability to develop practical total quality management skills for application in real-world use cases, including the microelectronics industry, by addressing continual improvement of people, processes, products/services, and environments to enhance the process and outcomes of project management

Digital badge

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Manufacturing)

Lean Six Sigma is a quality control methodology used across manufacturing enterprises, including in microelectronics. The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt is an industry-recognized certification for manufacturing professionals including engineers, quality-control experts, supply chain managers, operations analysts and more.

Industry certification

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Lean Six Sigma is a quality control methodology used across manufacturing enterprises, including in microelectronics. The Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt is an industry-recognized certification that introduces essential skills to analyze complex problems, eliminate waste and reduce process variation.

Industry certification

Logistics in the Supply Chain

Excellent logistics managers are essential to helping enterprises in the microelectronics industry understand each link in their supply chain. This class focuses on the history, importance, and process of transnational logistics, as well as the different delivery modes and the laws that apply to them.

Certificate

Materials Science for Advanced Technological Applications - Microelectronics

This advanced specialization extends upon the initial Materials Science specialization. Multiple roles in the micro electronics industry will benefit from the knowledge contained in this specialization, including Materials Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Electrical Engineer and Materials Quality Control.

Certificate

Materials Science for Technological Applications - Microelectronics

This specialization provides introductory knowledge and understanding of key concepts in Materials Science that are vital to roles in the microelectronics industry. Some of the position titles that may benefit from this course include Materials Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Aerospace Engineer, Materials Quality Control.

Certificate

Modern Supply Chain Principles

Begin your path to understanding the management of global supply chains across extended supplier networks with the modern supply chain principles course, which addresses basic economic, business and management principles across global industries, including microelectronics.

Digital badge

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Explore supply chain management topics, including environmental, project, and supply chain processes. It is designed for working professionals with some exposure to supply chain topics, including those in the microelectronics industry.

Certificate

Planning for Program Quality

This course introduces learners to topics around effective management and effective stakeholder management to ensure project success, teaching program quality principles essential to projects in multiple industries, including microelectronics.

Digital badge

Rapid Prototyping and Tooling Specialization - Microelectronics

This specialization teaches how to make effective prototypes, an essential skill in the microelectronics industry and advanced manufacturing.The specialization addresses fundamentals of prototype design, highlighting best practices for different materials and manufacturing equipment.

Certificate

Rapid Prototyping Using 3D Printing - Microelectronics

This specialization will help learners to understand how prototyping can be accelerated in microelectronics and beyond through the use of 3D printing. Learners who complete this specialization will obtain a rich understanding of the key roles of prototyping in engineering and product development processes and how to use various types of 3D printing technologies.

Certificate

Semiconductor Packaging - Microelectronics

This specialization, jointly developed by ASU and Intel, provides a foundational understanding of semiconductor packaging is, how packaging is designed and made, and how it works to finish, connect and protect functional parts.

Certificate

Semiconductor Processing

ASU’s Certificate in Semiconductor Processing helps workers to rapidly obtain essential skills for semiconductor manufacturing, from advanced materials characterization to device theory and simulation, data mining, quality control and reliability, and Six Sigma methodology.

Digital badgeDoctoral degreeMaster's degree

Supply Chain and Sustainable Materials

This course highlights the economic, health, and social impact of sustainable supply chains and materials and introduces frameworks for using them in microelectronics and other industries for triple-bottom line impact.

Digital badge

Supply Chain Management and Integrating Cost and Value in Projects

This course teaches Supply Chain Management from the project cost management perspective and is designed to help future supply chain managers thrive in the microelectronics industry and beyond through comprehensive training in cost management and value methods.

Digital badge

Sustainable Supply Chain Management

This course covers supply chains, what they are, and how companies in various industries, including microelectronics, can create sustainable supply chains. The course introduces learners to a framework can help companies to make supply chains more sustainable.

Digital badge