<p>EE, Chem E, or Mat sci? It seems that most EE courses @ my school deal with design, not actual fabrication of hardware.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>You’re not likely to see such a class until your last year of undergrad because all of the people doing that stuff have advanced degrees and it takes a lot of semiconductor physics knowledge. At the graduate level in ECE, my school has several different classes on fabrication and process control.</p>
<p>so does that require extensive chemistry knowledge? still, ee’s here don’t have to taking anything beyond basic inorganic chem… perhaps ee courses incorporate microelectronic chemistry, namely lithography</p>
<p>I’d usually pin that somewhere between EE and materials science, tending more towards EE. There are both undergrad and grad courses here that focus mainly on fabrication, and a number more that focus mainly on semiconductor and transistor physics, and all of them are in EE.</p>
<p>Fabrication classes are usually senior level, but there is usually a transistor physics/device physics class at the sophomore/junior level that is a prereq for the fab and semiconductor stuff.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s much chem knowledge necessary. You have to know a nontrivial amount about energy levels, excited/ground states, electron shells, valence electrons, Pauli exclusion principle, some crystal structure, but honestly, those are not advanced chem topics.</p>
<p>EE and materia science. you will need to know some solid state physics</p>