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The semiconductor industry grew rapidly in Texas and in Silicon Valley, California;
and the Silicon Valley universities - like Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley -
were involved right from the beginning, and the research aspects were well developed
out of those universities, but they were so involved in the research that they did not
work on the undergraduate bachelors-level engineers that the semiconductor industry
needed by the hundreds.
RIT, on the other hand, had the Electrical Engineering program and the Imaging Science program,
and I had taught semiconductors and we had built transistors in our Electrical Engineering courses,
and that combination allowed us to put together a program that
emphasized the engineering that needed to be done.
I think that was an enabling technology, and allowed us to put together graduate programs,
including the Microsystems Engineering PhD program, and today RIT's research in graduate-level
enterprises in microelectronic engineering have caught up.
So, it's a little bit different than what was done in Stanford University - it was done the RIT way.