Integration, communication and energy consumption: The challenges of higher education in electronics and microelectronics

2021

EDULEARN Proceedings

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Due to the pandemic in early 2020, the French government, like many others, decided to temporarily close the universities and asked the faculties to entirely focus on online education or e-learning. In a world where digital contents exponentially increase, this pandemic has been an opportunity to develop distance e-learning. Many politicians found a unique opportunity to decrease or even eliminate face-toface teaching activities. In engineering, this experience has shown clear limits and weaknesses. This paper highlights several problems that raised in microelectronic education and good reasons to move back to face-to-face learning especially for the acquisition of know-how. Indeed, know-how is mandatory for engineers, masters and PhDs in science and technology and this will never be replaced by a virtual experience. Real practice is the necessary price to pay for meeting the technological challenges of the upcoming decade.

Section: Microelectronics: a High Priority Engineering Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distance Learning Is Not an Online Face-to-Face – Observations in Microelectronic Education

2021

EDULEARN Proceedings

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“…Of these 25 kWh, nearly 50% is consumed by the data centers that supplies the film (half of data transfers are machine-to-machine), 15% for long distance data transfer to the user and 35% by the user, considering battery charging, consumption of screens and video devices, and data processing [23]. Although microelectronics has made huge progress over the last 25 years, notably through the development of flat panel displays and thus thin film technologies, the multiplication of these objects has led to an exponential growth in energy consumption [3] verifying in this case the Jevons paradox [24]; when technological progress on a resource occurs, the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand. Figure 2 shows this growth related to connected objects, linked to the whole IoT and is compared to the global annual electrical energy consumption [3].…”

Section: Challenges On the Global Energy Consumption Of Iotmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although microelectronics has made huge progress over the last 25 years, notably through the development of flat panel displays and thus thin film technologies, the multiplication of these objects has led to an exponential growth in energy consumption [3] verifying in this case the Jevons paradox [24]; when technological progress on a resource occurs, the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand. Figure 2 shows this growth related to connected objects, linked to the whole IoT and is compared to the global annual electrical energy consumption [3]. annual electrical energy consumption of IoT will reach the global annual electrical energy consumption of 2018 whatever the application domains that include lighting and heating of housing, industrial production, transportation, etc.…”

Section: Challenges On the Global Energy Consumption Of Iotmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These challenges concern the integration of components, circuits and systems, the density of elementary components, but also the heterogeneous assembly, the data flow in communications [1] and the energy consumption of the whole connected system [2]. Indeed, current technologies and the amount of data transmitted nowadays lead to an exponential growth in energy consumption at the global level, a growth that will no longer be realistic and acceptable from 2030 onwards [3][4]. To counteract this, the entire chain of integrated functions that are physically realized by microelectronic components, circuits and systems [5] needs to be revisited.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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(Invited) Progressive Involvement of Thin Film Technologies in Connected Objects to Meet New Societal Challenges

2022

ECS Trans.

This paper is part of a context of galloping evolution of digitalization of all societal areas. This invasion of digital systems and communication that may appear as a progress in many societal applications, as well create new limitations that must be quickly overcome. These limitations may have scientific, technical and technological origin, but also of a human origin, particularly with regard to the nature and the pool of skills, know-how, and innovation capabilities. This paper highlights the future challenges related to the exponential development of connected objects, and Internet of Things that leads to an effective power consumption growing exponentially as well. The different approaches to meet the challenges emphasize the role of microelectronics devices and systems and the potential interest of thin film technologies. It concludes with the human challenge, which is becoming a key point for the success of the digital extension at the global level.

“…This has led to the development of increasingly complex circuits and systems that today fulfil the functions of connected objects and the Internet of Things (IoT). With this new societal evolution, the electronics and microelectronics sectors are increasingly growing and will have to face new challenges related to security [2], increasing complexity [3], multidisciplinary openness of applications [4], and energy consumption [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Weak Presence of Women in Microelectronics: Analysis and Suggestions of the French Training Network to be More Attractive

2020

JICS

The engineering sciences, and more particularly microelectronics, are a field where the presence of women is very low, although they should logically account for half of the staff. The electronic and microelectronics sector is growing rapidly due to the development of the Internet and connected objects more generally known as the digital society. Industrialists in the field are lacking in skills and have a large number of job vacancies which are difficult to fill. These jobs cover almost all the professional facets that are entitled " Skilled manpower shortage". The arrival in this sector of a large number of female candidates could reduce this deficit and increase the sector's capacity for innovation through their difference of appreciation on many societal aspects. This paper discusses and analyses the presence of French young women in science studies from secondary school to doctorate level by linking this behavior to societal aspects. It then proposes approaches that are currently being carried out by the national academic network at the French level with the profession in the context of the implementation of an electronic sector by the government. These approaches aim to limit the loss of female candidates to other fields and to increase the attractiveness for young girls.