Towards multidisciplinarity for microelectronics education: A strategy of the French national network

The evolution of the fields of microelectronics and nanotechnologies has presently two main orientations: on one hand, the ultra large scale integration with FinFET or FDSOI technologies, and on the other hand, the multidisciplinary approach to insert the new devices in systems, mainly the communicating objects and the smart objects, in terms of applications. This evolution asks to the teachers to adapt the theoretical contents of the courses and to renew the practice in order to create new knowledge, new skills and new know-how. The French national network, CNFM (National Coordination for Education in Microelectronics and nanotechnologies) has deliberately introduced in its strategy the incitation to the multidisciplinary innovative projects in the microelectronics centers of this network. This paper deals with this strategy and gives several recent examples of the application of this strategy.