Additive Manufacturing of Semiconductor Chips

Research Project Paper Content and Format:
This is a senior level capstone course and will require significant time and research in the development and presentation of a formal professional project.
Development and presentation of this paper will familiarize the student with new and emerging technology for application in the manufacturing sector. Introduction of new or different technology into a production environment can provide many positive returns if its implementation is well planned. Considerations such as cost, timing, necessary expertise, effect on end product, facility transition, impact on customers, advantages and disadvantages, are all parts of the planning process and must be addressed.
For this research project, the student will select an existing product and find new or emerging technology that may allow it to be produced more inexpensively, with better quality, and over all, provide increased benefit to the company. This can be a new technology or existing technology applied using a different process.
Projects shall include the following sections as a minimum.
1) Cover
2) Table of Contents (page numbers and section identification linked to body of project)
3) Introduction – A brief summary of your research and the contents of your project, including your reason for selecting it
4) Description of the new technology including historical background, its emergence, as well as future direction
5) Its proposed application for manufacturing (product description, process)
6) Associated investment cost and breakeven point (vs. staying with current process)
7) Implementation strategy
8) Conclusion and comments
9) Bibliography (all resources are required to be cited where used within the text of
the report/project).