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The School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as the “School of Microelectronics") is a secondary college of the Southern University of Science and Technology. Established in cooperation with world-renowned universities in the Greater Bay Area, the school is created based on innovative operation concepts and mechanisms in order to actively implement the Outline for the National Program on the Development of the Integrated Circuit Industry" and the Notice on Supporting Relevant Universities in Establishing Exemplary Microelectronics Schools, as well as the relevant spirit of the strategic planning of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Advance Demonstration Area building socialism with Chinese characteristics in Shenzhen following General Secretary Xi's important instruction of "promoting the scientific and technological cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland".

The School of Microelectronics, bringing together the advantageous teaching resources of world-renowned universities in the Greater Bay Area, aims to become a world-class national exemplary research-oriented institute of microelectronics. At present, the school has signed cooperation framework agreements with universities in the Greater Bay Area, including the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Macau, working out cooperation plans in fields such as undergraduate exchange as well as joint master and PhD programs.

The school has built a first-class scientific research platform, micro-nano process R & D platform and IC design and testing platform, focusing on the four research directions of IC design methodology, IC design, IC manufacturing and technology, micro-nano system and integration. In the field of scientific research, the school has obtained a number of national, provincial and municipal qualifications, including the National Demonstration Microelectronics College (28 in China and only 3 in South China), the Engineering Research Center on Future Communication IC Sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Guangdong GaN Device Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangdong 3D Integration Engineering Research Center and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Third Generation Semiconductor Devices. Centering on the semiconductor industry chain, the school strengthens the R&D of core technologies and talent fostering in order to effectively support the development of the integrated circuit industry in the entire Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area that includes Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, and even the entire country.

The school runs at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, and carries out teaching and research in the branch of learning of IC science and engineering. The scale target of the school is 1000 students, including 500 undergraduates and 500 postgraduates. At present, the major of undergraduate enrollment is microelectronics science and engineering, and the school is applying to add the major of IC design and integrated system; The major of graduate enrollment is electronic science and technology. The school attaches great importance to bringing in talent and constructing high-level teaching staff. It has preliminarily established a body of high quality international teaching staff. All of our teachers have experiences either studying or working abroad and are competent for teaching in English. The ultimate goal of the school is to have our teacher-student ratio of 1:10, our teaching staff includes 60 teachers for teaching research, 30 teachers for research/teaching, and 10 engineers. In addition, the school will employ senior personnel from the integrated circuit industry as part-time or visiting professors and mentor of the industry to build a high-level teaching staff combining full-time members with part-time members. By March 2023, the school has 43 full-time teachers, including 7 professors of teaching and research/industry-university-research/research sequence, 16 associate professors of teaching and research/teaching/research sequence, and 20 assistant professors of teaching and research/research sequence.

In addition, the school strengthens the work of "integration of industry and education, collaborative education, guiding employment and attracting talents" with enterprises, cooperates with well-known IC enterprises in the industry, such as Hisilicon, ZTE Microelectronics, Arm China, LONGSYS, SMiT, PANGOMICRO and GD, jointly builds laboratories and training bases, jointly trains postgraduates, and carries out industry university research project cooperation. The school aims to build a complete institutional system that incorporates government, industry, universities, practical applications and research, so that the scientific research achievements of the school can be fully transformed to promote the rapid economic development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The School of Microelectronics plans a total construction area of 70000 square meters, mainly including teaching building, experimental building, micro-nano building, office building, dormitory building, etc. it will layout and build micro-nano processing platform, advanced electronic packaging and testing platform, IC design EDA support platform and IC industry chain service resource platform. Meanwhile, it will further strengthen the works in industry university research cooperation, industry education integration and achievement transformation, innovation and entrepreneurship, serving the society, etc.