【KOSEN】“Teachers also continue to learn” Semiconductor Manufacturing Training for Teachers Simultaneously Held at Asahikawa and Sasebo KOSENs, Teachers Nationwide Experience Practical Manufacturing Sites
The National Institute of Technology (KOSEN) simultaneously held semiconductor manufacturing process training for KOSEN teachers nationwide at Asahikawa National College of Technology and Sasebo National College of Technology. This initiative addresses the structural challenge of declining teachers with practical manufacturing experience in Japan's semiconductor education, aiming to improve educational quality by allowing teachers to experience semiconductor device design to completion.
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“I want to nurture excellent students. But I myself have never touched manufacturing equipment.”
This is not a problem for some teachers, but a structural issue facing Japan's semiconductor education. As semiconductor manufacturing laboratories, once numerous in universities and companies, have shrunk, the number of teachers with practical manufacturing experience has rapidly decreased in Japan. If those who educate lack experience, no matter how excellent the curriculum designed, its effectiveness will be halved.
To fill this “educational gap,” two schools leading semiconductor human resource development have taken action.
On March 23rd and 24th, Reiwa 8 (2026), the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN) (Hachioji City, Tokyo; President: Isao Taniguchi) simultaneously held semiconductor manufacturing process training for KOSEN teachers nationwide at Asahikawa National College of Technology (Asahikawa City, Hokkaido; Principal: Kosuke Yakubo) and Sasebo National College of Technology (Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture; Principal: Sadayuki Shimoda).
A total of 12 teachers from across the country participated in the training, which was conducted with different approaches in the north and south of Japan. They operated manufacturing equipment themselves and experienced the entire process from semiconductor device design to completion with their own hands.
■ Why is teacher training necessary now?
“If one teacher changes, hundreds of students change.”
Many students enroll in the 51 national KOSENs each year and graduate into industry. The quality of their education depends on the practical experience of the educators.
In the semiconductor field, due to the shrinking of university laboratories, the number of teachers who have actually manufactured semiconductors is decreasing in educational settings. The lack of teachers who know through experience, even if they have knowledge, is an invisible but serious “bottleneck” in semiconductor human resource development.
The COMPSS5.0 project “Semiconductor Human Resource Development Ecosystem Concept,” promoted by KOSEN, is directly addressing this issue. This training is one of its core initiatives. It is an investment in the upstream of human resource development, aimed at enabling KOSEN teachers nationwide to master the “key points of guidance” in manufacturing and become educators who can realistically convey them in the classroom.
■ Asahikawa KOSEN “Knowing the entire semiconductor device manufacturing process by hand”
Asahikawa National College of Technology (COMPASS5.0 project semiconductor field block base school) conducted a “full process experience training” for 7 teachers gathered from across the country, focusing on semiconductor device manufacturing. This training is a model case for deploying teaching materials developed at Kushiro KOSEN to other KOSENs.
This is not a problem for some teachers, but a structural issue facing Japan's semiconductor education. As semiconductor manufacturing laboratories, once numerous in universities and companies, have shrunk, the number of teachers with practical manufacturing experience has rapidly decreased in Japan. If those who educate lack experience, no matter how excellent the curriculum designed, its effectiveness will be halved.
To fill this “educational gap,” two schools leading semiconductor human resource development have taken action.
On March 23rd and 24th, Reiwa 8 (2026), the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN) (Hachioji City, Tokyo; President: Isao Taniguchi) simultaneously held semiconductor manufacturing process training for KOSEN teachers nationwide at Asahikawa National College of Technology (Asahikawa City, Hokkaido; Principal: Kosuke Yakubo) and Sasebo National College of Technology (Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture; Principal: Sadayuki Shimoda).
A total of 12 teachers from across the country participated in the training, which was conducted with different approaches in the north and south of Japan. They operated manufacturing equipment themselves and experienced the entire process from semiconductor device design to completion with their own hands.
■ Why is teacher training necessary now?
“If one teacher changes, hundreds of students change.”
Many students enroll in the 51 national KOSENs each year and graduate into industry. The quality of their education depends on the practical experience of the educators.
In the semiconductor field, due to the shrinking of university laboratories, the number of teachers who have actually manufactured semiconductors is decreasing in educational settings. The lack of teachers who know through experience, even if they have knowledge, is an invisible but serious “bottleneck” in semiconductor human resource development.
The COMPSS5.0 project “Semiconductor Human Resource Development Ecosystem Concept,” promoted by KOSEN, is directly addressing this issue. This training is one of its core initiatives. It is an investment in the upstream of human resource development, aimed at enabling KOSEN teachers nationwide to master the “key points of guidance” in manufacturing and become educators who can realistically convey them in the classroom.
■ Asahikawa KOSEN “Knowing the entire semiconductor device manufacturing process by hand”
Asahikawa National College of Technology (COMPASS5.0 project semiconductor field block base school) conducted a “full process experience training” for 7 teachers gathered from across the country, focusing on semiconductor device manufacturing. This training is a model case for deploying teaching materials developed at Kushiro KOSEN to other KOSENs.