UK student training programme aims to boost China’s IC design talent
In the first partnership of its kind, the University will work with British company Sondrel, an IC design services consultancy for the semiconductor industry, to offer the three-month training programme at its University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) campus.
The programme will enable UNNC students to graduate with in-depth knowledge of leading-edge design methodologies, and was created after Sondrel identified a lack of IC designers in China with the skills the company needs to continue its rapid expansion.
The training aims to plug this talent gap and improve China’s ability to compete globally in the IC design market.
A subset of electrical and computer engineering, integrated circuits are crucial in the manufacture of digital devices such as computers and mobile phones.
Delivered by UNNC engineering staff and Sondrel engineers at the Nottingham-Sondrel School of VLSI Design, the training will be open to third year UNNC students and recent graduates with relevant qualifications and professional experience. The first cohort of students will begin in June 2013.
Students who complete the training will be offered a four-month internship at Sondrel, before being able to apply for a job at the company, which has offices in seven countries throughout Europe and Asia, including in Shanghai.
Software worth $10m has been donated by Sondrel’s partner company Mentor Graphics, a leader in electronic design automation software, to support the training.
Professor David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor at The University of Nottingham, said: “This unique training programme will educate future generations of IC designers".
“This is a really important initiative at a time when change gets faster and ever more rapid…so the need for effective talent development and training, in a life-long learning context, gets ever greater".
“I’m delighted that Sondrel have the confidence to work with us here in Ningbo to develop a programme that is clearly of great importance to the company and its future success.”
More information about the training programme contact Sarina Liu, UNNC, sarina.liu@nottingham.edu.cn
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