ATE Impacts 2020-2021

NEATEC SUNY Polytechnic Institute Albany, NY Northeast Advanced Technological Education Center http://neatec.org "NEATEC workshops contributed to me being hired in an amazing position in thin films technology. I look forward to learning more with NEATEC, and I definitely recommend these workshops to anyone pursuing a career in nanotechnology." Terrance Barker, Cleanroom Technician GlobalFoundries Malta, NY NEATEC Facilitates NIST Internships for Two-Year College Students Thanks to NEATEC's partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) each year since 2014, nine 1\ TC'� I Northeast Advanced J. VL.r/"1J. � Technological Education Center students from two-year colleges across the US have had the opportunity to intern at the agency's headquarters in Gaithersburg, MD. During the paid 16-week internships the students receive mentoring from NIST scientists and engineers as they gain experience using cleanroom tools and running nanotech processes at the agency's prestigious laboratory. The 39 students who completed internships between 2014 and 2019 all received excellent job offers. Given the program's success, NEATEC is working to add more federal agencies as internship sites in 2020. A community college student interning at NIST uses an electron microscope to check the pattern of a semiconductor wafer.