BYOND: Build Your Own Nano Device - Enrichment Opportunity Program
Center for Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems, Micro and NanoFabrication Clean Room is offering an enrichment program to meet the growing demand for skilled engineers and scientists in cleanroom technologies.
Cleanrooms play a crucial role in various industries, ensuring that contamination is minimized or eliminated during the manufacturing and research processes of semiconductors, electronic devices, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, optics, solar panels, and aerospace components. The program aims to provide undergraduate students with specialized training and knowledge in cleanroom operations, enabling them to build a strong foundation in this critical area.
This program is designed to introduce microfabrication and analysis concepts to interested undergraduate students. The program currently offers four modules with each module running over a four-week period. It includes weekly two hours classroom instruction and a hands-on laboratory demonstration. A student may take any offered module in any order and is expected to attend each of the four weekly lab sessions. By completing all four modules, the student will be awarded a certificate (with min. 85% attendance) and be allowed access to cleanroom lab space.
Fall 2026 Schedule:
Module 2 (Deposition) 09/21-10/19
Module 1 (Lithography) 10/26-11/20
Application Deadline: 09/14, Monday, 5pm
Admission Requirements:
1. Any RPI undergraduate student who has an interest in the field.
2. The capacity for each module is seven students, the participants will be selected based on their interest and/or prior attendance to the program.
Registration:
https://webforms.rpi.edu/form/cmdis-byond-certificate-2026
Contact: Sarah An, Process Engineer (anx@rpi.edu)