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Microelectronics Technology, associate degree

The traditional Microelectronics degree has been offered since 1995 and is well recognized in the industry. Most students in the program get this degree.

You are trained to work in the many local fabs as equipment or maintenance technicians and will be able to perform preventative and corrective maintenance and repair on the complex process equipment used in the manufacture of integrated circuits and solar cells. Equipment includes:

• Diffusion furnaces
• Ion implantation
• Physical and chemical vapor deposition systems
• Planarization systems
• Plasma and wet etch systems

The foundation of the program is three terms of analog circuit analysis covering DC and AC passive devices such as resistors, capacitors and inductors, and also active devices such as diodes, transistors, and op-amps. The foundation also includes two terms of digital electronics.

Second-year classes apply those concepts to actual fab equipment such as vacuum technology, plasma technology, with a three-term sequence working into the inter-related systems of process equipment. Second-year courses are also focused on semiconductor processes and quality control methods used in the industry.

The program requires college algebra as well as statistics, three terms of algebra-based physics, two terms of chemistry, technical writing, and two terms of business communications.

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Courses

Course listing for the 2025-2026 catalog year.

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Could be used as General Education.

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Students who have taken ²Ñ°ÕÌý111 and ²Ñ°ÕÌý112 can substitute both for MT 111A and MT 112A.

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²Ñ°ÕÌý113 can be substituted for (MT 113A and MT 113B).

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Take one course from the COMM Elective list not already taken.

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This course is part of Oregon Common Course Numbering. The following courses are equivalent:

CH 221 and CH 221Z

CH 222 and CH 222Z
MTH 243, STAT 243, and STAT 243Z
WR 121 and WR 121Z
WR 227 and WR 227Z