Electronics

Like IT, electronics represents a critical set of technologies that enable practitioners in other fields to achieve innovative, market-making breakthroughs. As part of our efforts to foster more innovation in the region, we need to focus intently on improving our region’s capabilities in these critical areas. The region’s weaknesses in these fields, especially with respect to producing significant numbers of college graduates with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science EECS , makes it all the more difficult for us to successfully build a biomedical device cluster in Northeast Ohio or to attract and retain large financial service and insurance companies.

At the same time, the unique strengths of the educational and research institutions in our region create the opportunity for exceptionally powerful collaboration among our universities that will enable us to address the EECS challenge. This is why we actively support the work being done by Case Western Reserve University, CSU, Kent State, and the University of Akron to collaboratively grow and improve the region’s EECS offerings and attract eminent scholars. Growth areas such as MEMS, sensors, RFID, and more, all depend on strong electronics research, development, and commercialization capabilities.

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