<p>Do Cornell undergrad engineering students have classes with opportunities to work in clean rooms?</p>
<p>What's a clean room?</p>
<p>I'm not technical, but as I understand it essentially a lab where chips can be made where air filtered free of impurities, moon suits required, etc.
See e.g.:
<a href="http://www.intel.com/education/cleanroom/%5B/url%5D">http://www.intel.com/education/cleanroom/</a></p>
<p>Here is additional background on my question. D graduated in EE from large state school in 04 and had at least two classes (don't know what, maybe chip design) utilizing clean rooms. We assumed those were fairly SOP at large engineering programs. However, D works with engineers from another large school and surprised to learn that that school does not have clean rooms for undergrad use. S looking at Cornell, probably also EE, and we thus wonder whether Cornell undergrad engineers have similar opportunities to take classes utilizing clean rooms.</p>
<p>I think the answer is yes. There is a clean room in Duffield Hall and everytime I walk through the building there are students in the clean room (they have windows out to the main atrium)</p>
<p>I did a quick search of Cornell's website and found those two links. I'm sure with a more thourough search you can get a more exact answer</p>
<p>Wharf</p>
<p>"Only MIT, Cal-Tech, Cornell, Illinois, Berkeley and a handful of other U.S.
universities have similar facilities, Evans noted. Rice University is currently building a clean room, but it will be about one-third the size of SMU's."</p>
<p>Wharf Rat - thanks for the great information. D's school, BTW, was Univ of Michigan (AA), with clean rooms used by undergrad classes. Her collegues were from Purdue, which had them, but only used there in grad school classes (if I understood correctly).</p>
<p>What's with the fetish anyhow? I mean, that's so random. Clean rooms?</p>
<p>Yeah, I took a nanofabrication class in the ECE department that did this, and this was before Duffield Hall was built. I'm sure there are more classes that do this but I don't have any specifics, sorry.</p>
<p>As an MEng student there I had a summer job working in the clean room. This was a thousand years ago.</p>
<p>Don't know about undergrads though.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that Cornell Undergraduates get to use the clean rooms. I'm a freshman right now in the Engineering School, and I'm in the "Introduction to Engineering: Nanoscience and Engineering" Class, and the professor said that we will be using those "clean rooms" many times this semester for labs.</p>