Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2013 School

The manufacture of semiconductor devices requires precise process control and highly pure materials, but it also requires a truly elite team of engineers to overcome various problems.

When Daxia's semiconductor industry was upgraded, it was not really Gu Qing who alone carried the heavy burden.

This feat was achieved with the concerted efforts of engineers from many local semiconductor companies, researchers from semiconductor laboratories, university professors and doctoral teams in related majors, as well as a large number of equipment and materials purchased from abroad as references.

Dr. Rosen has long discovered that there is a problem with the talent training model in the Western technology manufacturing industry, especially the semiconductor industry. In terms of engineering talent, there is already a gap between the talent in the semiconductor industry in China and that in the semiconductor industry in the United States.

In order to succeed, Jiuzhou Technology must obtain the SS1MB light source developed by Jiuzhou Technology and the lithography machine equipped with this light source technology, and naturally the more semiconductor industry talents cultivated by Jiuzhou Technology, the better.

The top universities in the West share the same idea as him. This time, because of the waving of the top hand, many universities want to take advantage of this opportunity and gain as much benefit as possible.

They have already thought it through. After these international students from Daxia arrive at their own schools, they will arrange for handsome men and beautiful women to be their companions. The difficulty of assessment for these people during their student period will be reduced, and they will also be given more teaching assistant jobs. When they are about to graduate, they will either arrange places for master's or doctoral studies, or provide these "outstanding graduates" with high-paying jobs related to schools and enterprises so that these people can stay in school.

The school boards that had found it difficult to reach a consensus in the past also maintained a high degree of consistency when it came to the issue of rescuing people from Daxia University.

But after so much hard work by many top Western universities, what they got in the end was... rejection.

There are some students from Daxia University who even want to drop out and then enter these prestigious universities through special recruitment. However, the top Western universities also send special personnel to conduct actual assessments for these students.

The result did not please these top Western universities. The number of students in this group was not large to begin with, and among these few students, only a few could master Jiuzhou Technology's basic semiconductor process technology.

Even if these students say: "The teachers said that after we graduate from college, we can barely master the basic processes of some project majors. If we want to learn more in-depth or more comprehensive process technologies, we must study for a doctorate and work in Jiuzhou Technology Company. After passing the Jiuzhou engineer assessment, there are more professional process technologies to learn."

"We are only in our sophomore year, and the teacher said that the most important thing now is to lay a solid foundation. Of course, we can only lay a solid foundation and learn some basic techniques. We can only actually learn and master the Kyushu techniques in our junior year."

"In our school, 80 to 90 percent of the courses will be taught in the third year. After a few months of teaching in the fourth year, we, the students in the agreement class, will be sent directly to Jiuzhou Technology for internships. If you want to take the master's degree in your major or the master's and doctoral program, you also need to work and study in Jiuzhou Technology before you can continue.

According to the syllabus, we will not be able to learn the part of the test you are taking until a few months later..."

“Although I am a first-year graduate student and have mastered some of Kyushu Semiconductor’s process technologies, according to the confidentiality courses we have learned, I cannot write information related to these technologies in documents that are not authorized by Kyushu Technology or the government.

This is not about whether to pay liquidated damages or provide legal aid. The confidentiality course clearly taught us that if the facts are leaked, not only will I be punished, but my family will also be punished..."

After such a screening, there are very few "useful" students.

The technical skills mastered by just a few dozen scattered students are not as much as what they have learned through various channels over the years.

Coupled with the joint statement from Daxia officials and Jiuzhou Technology, Harvard, MIT, Stanford University, Pennsylvania... these top Western universities could only barely keep smiling, and said one after another: "We just want to deepen teaching cooperation, better train students, cooperate with the world, and contribute to scientific and technological progress... If you are not willing to cooperate, we respect your wishes." The agreed cooperation was broken with a click.

Some students who had dreamed of being selected by top universities, studying abroad, getting high-paying jobs abroad, and marrying beautiful, wealthy women, felt depressed after seeing the news of the termination of cooperation.

"Isn't it possible?"

Afterwards, the class teachers and professional course instructors contacted the students one by one to inquire about the situation. After confirming that some individual students really wanted to study abroad, they did not "turn a blind eye" and not correct their mistakes. Instead, they directly uploaded their information to the agreement class management platform established by Jiuzhou Technology in cooperation with major universities.

After the relevant person in charge sorted out the data and related information, he provided these documents to the Daxia officials as soon as possible.

Although Jiuzhou Technology and Daxia officials have had a sweet relationship over the years and some projects have drifted apart, all of these are family matters behind closed doors.

When someone outside wants to steal something, both parties know what is going on.

The punishment for these students was implemented quickly and specially.

As long as those students have signed the withdrawal or study abroad agreement provided by the specialists of Western universities and dream of entering the cradle of Western universities through special recruitment, they have all enjoyed the benefits of being persuaded to withdraw and having their files recorded.

As for several students who were found to have written professional technical information on the examination papers, good consequences followed one after another. Even their parents, class teachers and professional teachers were notified and inquired to understand the situation.

In the semiconductor industry, a tiny manufacturing error or a tiny impurity invisible to the naked eye may have a negative impact on the performance of semiconductor devices.

In the education industry, it is not uncommon for a bad apple to ruin project planning.

Also because of this incident of Western universities poaching students, the agreement classes that Jiuzhou Technology cooperates with major universities have more stringent admission standards, and the confidential courses in the agreement classes also have a higher score weight.

Not only students, but also professional tutors and class teachers of the agreement classes have been subject to a lot more assessments.

Of course, in addition to this, Jiuzhou Technology and the management of major universities have also communicated in contracts and decided to reduce the tuition fees for the agreement classes and increase the internship income of students in the agreement classes to a certain extent.

For professional tutors and class teachers, while their workload increased, their income also increased by about 30%.

(End of this chapter)