Internships
One of CITC’s core values is providing access to education. Education and training are key to securing the future of the semiconductor industry in Europe. In close cooperation with companies and educational institutes, CITC organizes targeted education and training for young talent. By providing a connection between education and industry, we contribute to the training and skills of people who match industry needs.
Student opportunities
CITC holds an Accredited Work Placement Company qualification that enables us to train secondary vocational education (mbo) students in professional practice.
With our close ties to educational institutes like Radboud University, Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Twente and HAN University of Applied Sciences, we regularly offer internships (BSc and MSc), graduation assignments (BSc and MSc) and PDEng/PhD projects to students.
Internships or graduation assignments at CITC can last 3-9 months, the location is Nijmegen.
Check if you’re a match for CITC
Are you a motivated and enthusiastic student in one of the following fields:
- Electricial engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Applied physics
- Material Science
- International Business
Seondly, are you willing to work in the semiconductor packaging field in a highly dynamic environment at the intersection of science and industry?
And, finally, are you interested in developing novel semiconductor packaging concepts?
If this is a triple ‘YES’, please contact us. We might be looking for you!
Current opportunities
Internship assignment: On the influence of additives in a sintered silver microstructure on the thermal and electrical conductivity
The semiconductor packaging industry has been looking for lead-free alternative solutions for die attachments especially for high-power packages. One alternative, pressureless silver sinter interconnect, appears to be too brittle. The research question of this assignment is: can additives reduce brittleness and what are the optimal shapes and sizes of such additive materials to improve conductivity and still maintain similar mechanical properties?
Internship assignment: Characterization of Cascode GaN HEMT devices
The performance of GaN HEMT technology has been extensively demonstrated in various applications. However, there remains a need to:
- Establish a normally off-state (hence we employ a cascode configuration) robustness
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic temperature variation (thermal impedance) during operation of the cascode GaN HEMT devices.
Internship assignment: Training CNNs for PQFN package delamination classification and segmentation
While the reliability challenges of PQFN packages are well documented, concerns arise on effective methods to identify packaging defects. The research question of this assignment is: how can CNN based ML models be used for defect detection, classification, and segmentation?
Internship assignment: Video communication (in Dutch)
Within our content marketing an essential part is missing: video. Although we have a corporate film, we are convinced that other forms of video content – from trade fair presentation to vlog – can be of value to CITC. The main task of the intern we are looking for is to map out the possibilities of video communication for CITC.
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Internship assignment: Research on wire-bonding parameters and optimization
CITC’s lab houses plenty of facilities and two wire-bonding machines. Your assignment is to use the latest of our machines and explore the more than 30 parameters that can be used in the bonding process. The goal is to provide usable recommendations on the effective operating window of each parameter, and a methodology to optimize them for different objectives.
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Interested in an assignment at CITC?
To learn more about what CITC can offer you, please fill in the student contact form or contact our internship coordinator Nathan van den Dool, Program Manager Education.