UKESF Summer Workshop tackles electronic skills shortage
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The second annual UK Electronic Skills Foundation (UKESF) Summer Workshop is taking place this week at the University of Edinburgh in a bid to advance the business skills of some of the country's top electronic engineering students.
The workshop runs as part of the UKESF Scholarship Scheme, which matches candidates from UKESF partner universities with sponsoring companies.
The five days of sessions include seminars on project management, business ethics, negotiation and emotional intelligence designed to help the scholars acquire the skills employers are seeking in order to support the future of the industry. Senior management from ARM, Dialog Semiconductor, Jaguar Land Rover, Linn and Wolfson Microelectronics are participating.
"The graduate skills we're looking for cover the whole gamut from analogue designers to digital designers, general electronics, software skills and physics," Gary Duncan, vp of engineering at Dialog told New Electronics. "Above that, we're looking for articulate and enquiring minds. We want people with energy and that's where the sponsorship comes in. UKESF gives us a selection criteria."
UKESF was founded in 2010 by Semta, NMI, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and various industry partners.
