Recruiting Semiconductor Academy Trainees... "3,600 Personnel Trained Over 5 Years"

On the 11th, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy began recruiting offline trainees for the "Semiconductor Academy."

This is a field workforce training program promoted in collaboration with the industry, academia, and specialized institutions as a follow-up measure to the "Semiconductor Superpower Achievement Strategy" announced in July last year. Using in-house training curricula and dedicated instructors from 18 companies including SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, and Wonik IPS, the program operates 5 basic semiconductor courses and 27 expert courses.

After the recruitment of trainees is completed, a selection process will be conducted, and the program is scheduled to start at the end of June. In this offline course, expert training courses for semiconductor chip design and equipment design such as the "Foundry-Oriented Semiconductor Design Expert Training Course," "Next-Generation Semiconductor Equipment Control and Software Expert Training Course," and "Next-Generation Semiconductor Equipment Design Expert Training Course" will be operated for 10 weeks. Approximately 40 people per course, totaling 100 people, will be trained.

In particular, the three courses starting this time are all practice-oriented. What is learned through theory can be immediately applied on-site using the necessary equipment for each course, resulting in high educational effectiveness.

The Semiconductor Academy also operates online courses. The online course launched last month expanded the trainee quota to 400, twice the originally planned 200.

The academy plans to additionally open field-specific courses such as semiconductor testing and packaging in the second half of the year and aims to produce more than 3,600 field-customized personnel over the next five years.