[Nikken Total Sourcing] Launches "Semiconductor Engineer Experiential Training" Utilizing Tohoku University's Shared Facilities

Nikken Total Sourcing Ltd. (Head Office: Ota-ku, Tokyo), a "Human Capital Creation Company" that views diverse human resources as capital and creates possibilities through human resource solutions, launched an experiential curriculum training for semiconductor engineers on June 15, 2026, utilizing the "Prototype Fabrication Facility" operated by Tohoku University's Center for the Study of Symbiotic Technologies. This training is a practical initiative that allows participants to learn actual processes while experiencing the real environment firsthand by utilizing Tohoku University's large-scale cleanroom and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Amidst a deepening shortage of engineers in the semiconductor industry, which is also being promoted as a national strategy, our company will foster and assign engineers through practical education that leverages the research facilities of academic institutions.

Film Thickness Measurement Work Photoresist Coating Work

Social Background and Objectives for Implementing "Semiconductor Engineer Experiential Training"

Currently, the demand for semiconductors is rapidly increasing with the digitalization of all industries, and domestic production bases are being rapidly developed. On the other hand, the shortage of engineers responsible for process development and production technology, which require advanced skills, has become a serious social issue. To address this challenge, our company has introduced a practical training program that combines our long-cultivated training expertise with the research equipment of academic institutions.

Features of "Experiential Training" Utilizing Tohoku University's Shared Facilities

This training will be conducted at the "Tohoku University Prototype Fabrication Facility" (within the Junichi Nishizawa Memorial Research Center). By experiencing actual manufacturing processes in addition to acquiring knowledge through lectures, participants will gain a concrete image of each process and foster an awareness of quality control. Furthermore, it will foster the foundational knowledge necessary to logically think about "why it happens" and "what should be done" to arrive at solutions.

The main training content is as follows:

・ Hands-on practice in an actual cleanroom: Participants will enter a cleanroom of approximately 1800 square meters equipped with semiconductor manufacturing equipment, primarily for MEMS, and experience firsthand the strict rules of the manufacturing site.

・ Hands-on operation of semiconductor manufacturing equipment: Using a plasma CVD system, participants will confirm the relationship between conditions and results through the formation of silicon oxide films and film thickness measurements. They will also experience photoresist coating work and film thickness measurement.

・ Process design practice: Participants will change conditions, measure the film thickness of oxide films and resist films on processed wafers, and conduct exercises to quantify the influencing factors of condition changes, perform graph analysis, and consider optimal conditions.

【Explanation of Technical Terms】

・ Wafer: A thin, disk-shaped material made of high-purity silicon, which serves as the base for forming semiconductor structures on its polished surface.

・ Plasma CVD system: A device that causes chemical reactions in a vacuum chamber and accelerates them with plasma, allowing thin protective films (such as oxide films) to be applied to the wafer surface at low temperatures.

・ Photoresist coating work: The process of evenly applying a film of a special photosensitive resin called "resist" to the surface of a wafer (semiconductor substrate).

Sendai Engineer Training Center Overview

Training incorporating this program will be promoted based at our Sendai Engineer Training Center. The center plans to train approximately 120 individuals annually who can work in a wide range of fields within the semiconductor industry, including the process engineer domain. Experienced instructors will conduct training over approximately 40 days. The curriculum includes various training sessions required in semiconductor production technology fields, starting from the basics of electricity, semiconductor device characteristics, semiconductor front-end and back-end manufacturing technologies, statistical methods, and quality control. The addition of this experiential training curriculum at an academic institution will further enhance the skills of trainees and enrich the educational content.

Name: Sendai Engineer Training Center

Location: 5-3-4 Ohnodai, Taihaku-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture (within Sendai Techno Center)

Map URL: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zgp3FVn4gsaArL2o8

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About Nikken Total Sourcing

As a "Human Capital Creation Company," we view individuals active in various fields beyond industry and job categories as "human capital" and create possibilities for workers, companies, and society through human resource solutions.

【Our Job Sites】

・ Job site for factories and manufacturing industries "e-Shigoto": https://1145.jp/

・ Community-based job site "e-Shigoto My Town": https://mytown.1145.jp/

・ Job site for manufacturing engineers "e-Shigoto Engineer": https://engineer.1145.jp/

・ New graduate recruitment site: https://nikken-totalsourcing.jp/work/newgraduate/special/

【Company Profile】

Established: April 1981

Head Office Location: Nishi-Kamata, Ota-ku, Tokyo

Representative: Koji Shimizu

Business Activities: Comprehensive human resource services (contract business / temporary staffing business / recruitment agency recruitment business)