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Microelectronics are in everything from smartphones to spacecraft, from enormous computer systems to automobiles.<\/p><\/div>\n

SCALE program website: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3jB472o<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

Matt Joplin had a job before he even graduated.<\/p>\n

The company, BAE Systems, essentially came to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d never even heard of BAE Systems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In 2018, a few months before Joplin earned a master\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, representatives from the company approached Daniel Loveless, UC Foundation associate professor in electrical engineering, asking if he had any students graduating soon. If he did, the company would like to chat with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get calls every few days asking, \u2018Hey, can we get one of your students?\u2019\u201d Loveless said.<\/p>\n

The people on the other end of the call are looking for students well-versed in microelectronics, which has exploded in the past few years. Microelectronics are in everything from smartphones to spacecraft, from enormous computer systems to automobiles. There are tons of jobs out there in the field, but not enough people to fill them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a niche area and, while it\u2019s small, it is absolutely critical and there\u2019s nowhere near the right level of workforce right now,\u201d Loveless said. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing people being hired in rapid-fire succession.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joplin is a testament to the desperate need, having landed jobs with two different employers\u2014BAE and NASA\u2014in the past two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that any student who\u2019s got a microelectronics background is going to be able to find a job in one place or another,\u201d said Joplin, who also earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering at UTC.<\/p>\n

When Loveless came to UTC six years ago, one of the areas he wanted to expand was microelectronics. People in the industry now see UTC as one of the prime universities to approach when they need microelectronic engineers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to actually keep people in school to focus on this stuff,\u201d Loveless said.<\/p>\n

One of the major projects UTC students are working on now is the Scalable Asymmetric Life Cycle Engagement Consortium, or SCALE. Funded by a $400,000 grant from the Strategic Radiation Hardened Electronics Council (SRHEC), part of the U.S. Department of Defense, the project is aimed at creating a pipeline of new engineers researching the effects of radiation on microelectronics used in spacecraft.<\/p>\n

BAE Systems is a multinational defense, security and aerospace company headquartered in the United Kingdom and operating in the U.S. and worldwide.<\/p>\n

A solution for eliminating\u2014or at least lessening\u2014those effects is critical for companies involved in the commercialization of space and programs to improve modern defense systems.<\/p>\n

SCALE is beneficial on several levels, said Michael McKenna, a radiation systems engineer at MDA supporting SRHEC and SCALE. Students can pursue research on areas of interest to the agency and, at the same time, get an inside look at microelectronics that might nudge them into choosing it for a career, he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt allows us to not only work on problems that are important to us and get actual usable solutions,\u201d McKenna said, \u201cbut it’s a way that we can actively engage students when they’re still at a point where maybe they’re deciding what they would like their career field to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

In doing so, SCALE also may help develop a larger available workforce for industries that use microelectronics, Loveless said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general, the commercial sector of electronics targets very high performance, but reliability is sacrificed,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople don\u2019t care if their cellphone doesn\u2019t work after two years because they care about the latest feature and they\u2019ll buy a new one.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpacecraft and these sorts of missions fundamentally depend on the reliability of the components, and that\u2019s all that we focus on,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, students who know how to design within this extra set of constraints\u2014meaning they design systems that can<\/p>\n

operate hot or very cold, in a vacuum, under extreme pressures and under exposure to radiation\u2014they\u2019re well-equipped to tackle just about any design problem in engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with DoD, UTC students can tackle jobs at, among others, NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab and Goddard Space Flight Center, the U.S Army, Air Force and Navy, the British spaceflight company Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s what I try to tell the students,\u201d McKenna said. \u201dIt’s very nice in the sense that there’s a huge demand, and it spans so many different industries, and it’s so global. There are lots of opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joplin stepped directly into that global need. After working at BAE Systems in Virginia for a couple of years, he took a job at Goddard Space Flight Center\u2014also in Virginia\u2014about a month ago. Staying at one job for an entire career is not a typical path in the microelectronic industry, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019ve been seeing is there\u2019s quite a lot of movement in people who are early on in their career,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t tend to stay in the same job, at least not their first job. They\u2019re constantly looking to find something that is better suited to them and experiment with the work they\u2019re doing. Possibly the shortage is what allows them to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s another advantage. Money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe workers gets to set their own terms and have the advantage in a negotiation. There are jobs out there, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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