Should We Teach Chip Design In Electronics Engineering Technology Programs? A Senior Project Course In Asic Design

Teaching circuit design up to chip layout seemed exotic for Electronics Engineering Technology(EET) programs for many years in the recent past. Many educators believed that courses like VLSI Design or ASIC Design should be destined only for Electrical Engineering students. And so did the faculty at Oregon Institute of Technology until, in the early nineties, different trends in local industry filtered back through the alumni, made us take a break-off from the old paradigm. The Computer Engineering Technology Department on the OIT campus in Klamath Falls, started offering selected courses in VLSI design starting in 1992.