Texas Instruments energetically support talent cultivation for China’s semiconductor industry
(Top News, 06 Feb 2008 )
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) set up “TI Innovation Fund” and “TI Outstanding Educator Award” after having successfully carried out its China University Program for 12 years. Since 2008, the Fund and the Award newly set up by TI will be used to support quality education and scientific research in China’s universities, and to give encouragement to the educators who conduct education and scientific research with the semiconductor technology. This embodies TI’s long-term determination to devote itself to the development of China’s higher education and the talent cultivation of electronic information technology. TI started its China University Program in 1996 and has assisted 141 China’s universities in establishing more than 160 labs in the past 12 years.
Currently, TI’s DSP, MCU and analog technology are extensively used for teaching and scientific research in these universities. Its China University Program enables the students and researchers to obtain plenty of practical experience from the research projects in some hot fields, such as consumer electronics, medical treatments and industrial applications, making a great contribution to China’s talent cultivation of the semiconductor industry.
Aiming at encouraging technological innovation and professional talent cultivation, “TI Innovation Fund” and “TI Outstanding Educator Award” cater to the need of the development of China’s semiconductor industry, and will further accelerate the transformation from laboratory achievements to feasible mass applications, and will also enhance the cooperation relationship between TI and China’s universities. With the drive of the Fund and the Award, there will be more teachers and students with electronic majors in China who know TI’s products and technologies well, and they will commit themselves to do scientific researches and innovative experiments. Some of the students will be able to join TI or its client firms after graduation, devote themselves to the semiconductor industry, and get a broader space to develop.
“As the leader in global semiconductor technology, TI encourages technological innovation and attaches importance to talent cultivation. We have witnessed the development of semiconductor industry in China over the past 10-odd years, and we always support China’s higher education and research. In face of the rapid development of China’s semiconductor industry of today, TI is much dutiful to assist China in cultivating more high-quality talents,” said Xie Bing, President of TI China.
“TI Innovation Fund” is oriented to the faculty who are engaged in electronic information technology research in universities. The project that can receive financial aid from the fund covers some new application fields integrated with TI product’s technology or the subjects that have a good prospect of industrial application and technological innovation characteristics in the coming 5 years, such as image, audio and video technology, biomedical engineering and medical instruments, wireless communication technology, industrial control and power management, and environment-friendly energy.
“TI Outstanding Educator Award” is mainly aimed at the teachers who do their teaching work based on TI’s semiconductor technology (DSP, Analog or MSP430) in China’s universities, which covers some relative fields such as electronics, communication, automation and biomedicine, etc.
For more information and flow on applying for “TI Innovation Fund” and “TI Outstanding Educator Award”, please visit: http://www1.ti.com.cn/uprogram.
