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Over a 30-year period, GT PRC
produced approximately 1,000 PhD,
MS and BS students. The breakout is
as follows: 560 students between 1994-
2004 during the NSF ERC period, and
approximately, another 450 between
20 04 a nd 2019. T he Center also
produced more than 10,000 engineers
who took one or more of 20+courses in
systems packaging courses taught by
more than 20 faculty at Georgia Tech
(see Figure 3). Additionally, GT PRC
published three textbooks, including
one that introduced the concept of SoP.
Global industry consortium
All major universities have industry
Figure 3: Students educated in the classroom: 5,870 (1994-2004); total: 10,600. Total students educated with projects. They tend to be individual
degrees: 560 (1994-2004); total: 1,020 (1994-2019). company projects. Some universities go
D&D prog ram, descr ibed above, students became interdisciplinary beyond and have multiple companies
requiring that each student design, students. Each student, in addition, f und and be involved in a single
fabricate, assemble and characterize took many courses including system project, typically in a thrust area. Our
their prototypes and in so doing, the courses and hands-on courses. approach is very different. Knowledge

Figure 4: Large-scale global industry consortium at Georgia Tech.

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