Tamaulipas – As part of the strategy being implemented in Tamaulipas to develop new human resources in the semiconductor industry, the state government signed a cooperation agreement with the National Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the Technical University (CINVESTAV). State Secretary of Education Lucía Aime Castillo Pastor and CINVESTAV Secretary General Alberto Sánchez Hernández presided over the signing ceremony of this association agreement, which provides the possibility of training and educating professionals in semiconductor technology. The head of the SET said that the strengthening of this partnership is part of the directives of Governor Americo Villarreal Anaya to promote excellent higher education that will affect better conditions and opportunities for the people of Tamaulipas. “We must look for ways that we can offer young people in training to choose their careers from the technical professional part of education, high school and university. “They can have better opportunities and have a profession that will allow them to live a happier, more well-being and more dignified life,” Castillo Pastor said. Meanwhile, the general director of the research center said that one of CINVESTAV’s main functions is to train a new generation of experts, especially with master’s and doctoral degrees, and that this cooperation agreement with the educational institution of Tamaulipas will strengthen the institution’s capacity to have more experts in strategic fields that the country needs. Javier Rubio Loyola, CINVESTAV director for the state, noted that Tamaulipas is the only state that produces discrete semiconductor devices and that there is great potential to expand bilateral cooperation due to its proximity to the US border. This cooperation agreement will allow researchers, education experts and teachers from higher and secondary educational institutions, such as the Polytechnic University, the Polytechnic University, UAT, ITACE and CONALEP, to have the opportunity to learn new technological and educational tools. This will make it possible to train young people with advanced expertise in semiconductors.
