The University of New Hampshire (UNH) Manchester campus offers a four year program in
Electrical Engineering Technology (EET). This work describes a multi-year collaboration
between the UNH-EET program and an industry partner to develop a digital and analog
curriculum to address the staffing needs of the regional microelectronics industry. The UNHEET program consist of a three course sequence in digital and a two course sequence in analog.
The introduction course topics are consistent with traditional analog and digital EET curriculum
with the advanced courses now covering integrated microelectronics concepts. The advanced
digital course covers Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) transistor theory, Complimentary MOS
(CMOS) processing, transistor level gate delay analysis, power estimates, interconnects impact
assessment, reliability design considerations, CMOS scaling calculations, and system simulation
approaches. The advanced analog course includes transistor amplifiers theory, design of
transistor level differential amplifiers, multistage amplifiers applications, implementation of bias
circuitry, and output stage architecture. Through a partnership and financial support of a major
international semiconductor company the industry standard Electronic Design Automation
(EDA) Ca̅dence® Design system has been adopted for the associated laboratory exercises on
schematic capture, simulation and physical design for both the digital and analog curriculum.
Over a four year period enrollments in the course sequence have increased and steady placement
of students in the microelectronic industry in the region has been demonstrated. This curriculum
approach makes the UNH-EET program one of only 250 American academic institutions to
provide access to the Cadence Systems through the Ca̅dence® University Program.
