The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has received $82,000 worth of circuit parts from Micron Technology. The donation is made through Dan Ewert, chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Chao You, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.
The parts include various inductors, capacitors, resistors, oscillators, logic chips, programmable boards, memories and microprocessors. The parts will be used for student labs, senior design projects, scholar team practices and graduate students’ research.
Having the "world’s most valuable patent portfolios and most powerful patent pipeline," according to IEEE Spectrum, Micron has invested heavily in technology innovation.
Micron has continuously funded NDSU through donations, student internship, full-time recruiting and summer visiting faculty program as part of their support of higher education. Many NDSU alumni work at Micron, including three top ECE students who accepted job offers from Micron last year.