Electronic Packaging Education in U.S.
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CHANGE IN U.S. EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY FROM 1980 - 1990 Industry Computer Electronic Components Communications Motor Vehicles Consumer Electronics Steel Mill Products
.20% Figure 1
technology such as the transistor TV, fax, phone, and many others as listed in Table I. This dominance is reflected in U.S. assuming dominance with 2/3 of the world market in 1970. This dominance, however, has eroded greatly, almost in half, within the last two decades. There are several reasons for this, education being one as summarized below.
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Table I
U.S. COMPETITIVENESS IN ELECTRONICS First Original R&D Products U.S. Communications Electronics U.S. U.S. U.S. Consumer Electronics U.S. U.S. Copiers U.S. U.S. Digital Watches U.S. Desk Top Computers U.S. U.S. Dram U.S. U.S./Europe U.S. Fax Machines Flat Panel Displays U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Hand Held Calculators U.S. Notebook Computers U.S. U.S. U.S. Num. Control Machines U.S. Robotics U.S. U.S. U.S. Television Sets U.S. U.S. VCRs
Market Leader Europe Far East Far East/U.S. Far East Far East/U.S. Far East Far East Far East Far East Far East Far East Far East Far East Far East
Leader
The U.S. education is disciplinary. In spite of cross-disciplinary nature of every electronic product, U.S. education is discipline-oriented in both science and engineering. The graduating engineer for the most part, accordingly, is educated in one or two disciplines, accounting for 10-20% of the education that is necessary to be a complete engineer. U.S. education is highly science-oriented, even in engineering. While science provides the necessary basics, it does not lead to making profitable products; the missing link being manufacturing fundamentals. To some extent, this is done by U.S. industry, after universities. Accordingly, U.S. industry spends as much in re-educating the engineers as the universities do in educating them in the first place. This amounts to doing twice and most importantly, the fundamental manufacturing education that is necessary to start the engineer's career is not there. It is estimated that U.S. electronics industry spent as much as $220B in 1992, which is about the same as all the universities spent in the same year. This paper reviews the status of university education and proposes what needs to be done to compete globally.
U.S. Packaging Education Strategy In the absence of major fundamental changes in the electronics area, it is conceivable that the U.S. electronics market share could fall to less than 10% of worldwide market within the next five decades as illustrated in Figure 2. Obviously, this could have major repercussions in the standard of living. One of the focal points of these changes must be in packaging. While U.S. dominates in microprocessor ICs, software, and systems technologies, it lags badly in DRAMS, electronic packaging, displays, battery sources as well as application of these for consumer and consumer-like products. These deficiencies, accordingly, account for the loss of market s
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