Project Director: Robert E. Pearson, Ph.D

It takes modern information technology, computers and networking to make tomorrow's computer chips. In order to transform Virginia into the "Silicon Dominion" thousands of trained workers are necessary. When a manufacturing process takes a month, has a thousand individual steps and makes a million units per week it takes a great deal of knowledge to compete. VCU has a state-of-the-art cleanroom for undergraduate and graduate microelectronic fabrication instruction. Through Internet2, the cleanroom can be made accessible to workers on the job and to students at universities, colleges and schools across the state.