Cedarville University to share in .7 million investment for semiconductor education
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Cedarville University to share in $17.7 million investment for semiconductor education

CEDARVILLE, Ohio (WKEF) – Cedarville University, along with 80 other institutions across the country, will be sharing a $17.7 million dollar investment to expand education in semiconductor production.

“It’s really important for our students, we’ve had an electrical engineering program since 1990, and then computer engineering came along in 2006,” says Dr. Robert Chasnov, Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Cedarville University. “And now, it’s important to support our students with the options that they will have because of what Intel is doing here.”

After years of outsourcing to other countries, companies like Intel are hoping to bring semiconductor production back to the US.

You may remember the University of Dayton receiving funding for their programs in September, and now, Cedarville is joining in with Intel’s education grant program: “OASIS”.

Dr. Chasnov says that Intel is hoping to instill manufacturing education at the ground level.

Chasnov continued, “Intel has provided money to universities broadly, including the community colleges. They’re looking for technicians as well as engineers, they’re looking for people at all levels.”

Governor Dewine, along with many other state and federal officials, has stated many times that the goal is, not only to train workers in Ohio, but also to employ them here.

Dr. Chasnov also says that, with Cedarville being just over an hour drive away from the $20 billion Intel plant in Licking County, their students will have plenty of job opportunities after graduation.

“But more importantly, these careers are in the state of Ohio,” Chasnov added. “These are things that the Governor has impressed upon us as the Deans of engineering schools. Those are going to be important for our students to get really good jobs that they’ll be using for their future.”

As for next steps, Cedarville will begin making plans to expand their current on-campus engineering facilities once they get the funding from Intel.

On the topic of advanced tech education, Wright State held a large group discussion between students and faculty on the developments of AI.

The discussion featured panelists from several universities, who have all conducted their own research on the effects of AI.

“Generative AI can have positive or negative effects on performance because it could harm motivation,” says Louis Hickman, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Virgina Tech University. “‘You’ve forced this AI on me. I’m not happy about it. What’s the point in learning if the AI can do everything?’”

The topics ranged from how the technology has progressed over the years to how it can affect productivity in the modern era.

Many of the experts agreed that AI will be used frequently in classrooms and workplaces in the future and it’s best to learn how to use it responsibly ahead of time.

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