Hands-on module packaging education at Georgia Tech

The Design Build and Operate (DBO) course at PRC (the Packaging Research Center at Georgia Institute of Technology) provides hands-on experience in SOP (System on a Package) packaging for undergraduate and graduate students. DBO consists of a sequence of two courses: Design Build Operate I (DBO I), which focuses on substrate fabrication and Design Build Operate II (DBO II), which focuses on module assembly. This paper presents an overview of the second component of the sequence, the DBO II (module) course. A detailed presentation of the experiments conducted and their results are presented. A user friendly software which helps students to conduct virtual designs and fabrication processes is also presented.