Our career has a great effect on us throughout our lifetime. Therefore, considering many requirements of career and choosing a career is important and hard. Nowadays, a new IT discipline is evolving very fast as it attracts attention. Among them, there is a career, semiconductor engineer.

Semiconductor which is a medium between insulator and conductor is an electrically charged material under certain special conditions. It plays the most important role in an electrical device. Semiconductor engineers improve this semiconductor's technical performance or develop semiconductors with a new ability. Also, they set the circumstance to make semiconductor effectively.

▲ It is an appearance of semiconductor.

There is a designated process to become a semiconductor engineer. There are few departments about semiconductor engineers in a university. Semiconductor Engineering, new materials engineering, and electrical/electronic engineering are examples. After graduating from one of these departments, we must get a semiconductor design certificate. According to the career searching site, Careernet, the average annual income of a semiconductor engineer is about 40 million won. Also, the other requirements of the career such as job prospects, employment, safety, and equality are much better than other career's requirements. This career is recommended to people who have a nice ability in space visual ability and repair logic ability.

In the news site, Etnews, and interview with a professor at Seoul National University, Professor Jong Ho Lee was mentioned. The professor said that there are few questions raised to him. Among them, one question is about the improvement and the training of manpower. He answered that these days, few students at universities have done semiconductor processes. They need the help of the government and some businesses to nurture talented people who will lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution in order to maintain competitiveness.

▲ Professor Jong Ho Lee, one of the most famous professor in world, was answering the question.

Semiconductor Engineers will lead the IT disciplines. I believe the future will be changed into a better place than now.

By Ju Yup Je