This session will be talking about his 2021 MEMS workshop and the upcoming URE opportunities at the University of New Mexico. He will also showcase the online asynchronous short courses and downloadable instructor and student educational materials.

Matthias Pleil, Ph.D. is the Principal Investigator for two National Science Foundation funded centers, the Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME, since 2004) and the Support Center for Microsystems Education (2017). He is a Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the MTTC Cleanroom Manager at the University of New Mexico. He teaches several undergraduate engineering classes and promotes micro and nanotechnology. Previously he was a faculty member at Central New Mexico Community College in both the Schools of Applied Technologies and Math, Science and Engineering (MSE) where he taught Microsystems Fabrication and Design, Survey of Engineering and Physics. He has over 12 years of experience in Semiconductor Manufacturing from both Texas Instruments and Philips Semiconductors, where he worked as a Senior Process and Equipment Engineer and Engineering Manager in Photolithography, Yield, and Metrology. Dr. Pleil received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1993 from Texas Tech University, where he completed original research on Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy.

The Micro Nano Technology Education Center (MNT-EC)

Key Website Links

SCME-Support.org – Support Center for Microsystems Education Website. This site gives you access to all of the SCME educational materials, asynchronous online short courses and industry maps!

SCME.online – Direct link to the SCME online short courses which can also be found through the SCME-Support.org website.

MNTeSIG.net – Micro Nano Technology Education Special Interest Group, make sure you sign up to receive invitations to meetings, and conferences.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Matthias Pleil, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center (2020), "SCME and URE Program – It’s about the Students!," https://nanohub.org/resources/34376.

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1. ATE Centers
2. education
3. MNT-EC
4. Nano Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS)
5. NEMS/MEMS
6. SCME
7. undergraduate research
8. undergraduate research experience (URE)