Microelectronics Boot Camp Paves Way for Manufacturing Jobs
NASHUA, NH—Nashua Community College is running its 11th 10-week microelectronics boot camp, with the goal of helping partner BAE Systems find skilled talent for its open manufacturing jobs. The noncredit career training program teaches technical skills workers use for military defense or missile guidance.
Students learn how to use various components, many of them small enough to fit on the tip of a pencil point. Wire bonding, for example, is similar to sewing, with the students attaching different component parts to make circuits that are used to help with signals for military uses.