标题: Old News: GlobalFoundries Partners with Community Colleges [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-10-2021 13:05 标题: Old News: GlobalFoundries Partners with Community Colleges News: New Workforce Training Partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Hudson Valley Community College, Mar 30, 2017. https://www.hvcc.edu/about/news/ ... lobalfoundries.html
the first two paragraphs:
"Semiconductor manufacturer GLOBALFOUNDRIES is teaming up with Hudson Valley Community College and Fulton-Montgomery Community College to offer the company's employees the opportunity to advance their education and earn an associate degree. Classes through the partnership will be available on a schedule convenient for GF employees, and enabled through the company's tuition education reimbursement program.
"Malta-based GLOBALFOUNDRIES employees have the option to choose between two degrees offered through the training partnership: a Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology A.A.S. from Hudson Valley or an Electrical Technology A.A.S. from Fulton-Montgomery. Employees in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology program will study online and at Hudson Valley's TEC-SMART extension center in Malta, located in NYSERDA's Saratoga Technology and Energy Park® (STEP®) adjacent to the GLOBALFOUNDRIES FAB 8 facility. Fulton-Montgomery's Electrical Technology program will hold classes on-site at GLOBALFOUNDRIES and also at its campus in Johnstown.
Note:
(a) The degrees offered are:
• Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in semiconductor manufacturing technology;
• AAS in electrical technology.
(b)
(i) Hudson Valley Community College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Valley_Community_College
(1953- ; public; based in Troy, New York)
(ii) Troy, New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy,_New_York
("seat of Rensselaer County. The city is * * * on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. * * * Troy is home to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest private engineering and technical university in the US, founded in 1824. * * * The name Troy (after the legendary city of Troy" / section 7 Off-campus sites: one of the two is TEC-SMART (Training and Education Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing and Alternative and Renewable Technologies): opened in 2010 and located in Malta)
GlobalFoundries was established in January, 2009 when AMD divested itself of the fabs at Austin and San Antonio, Texas (or, as a news report at the time said: "spun off its fab division") to become fabless. GlobalFoundries started building Fab 8 (in Maltal from scratch) in July 2012 and started mass producing chips in 2012. This timeline is from en.wikipedia.org for GlobalFoundries.
is 6 miles northeast of Albany (the two are not contiguous).
(c)
(i) Fulton-Montgomery Community College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton–Montgomery_Community_College
(1963- ; based in Johnstown; a rural campus)
(ii) Seat of Fulton County, Johnston is 35-mile air distance northwest of Albany and 25 miles due west of Malta.
(iii) "In 1838, Fulton County was split off from Montgomery." en.wikipedia.org for "Fulton County, New York"