News and Notices

📢 Career Guidance Talk: The Automotive Microelectronics Industry

On June 29, 2026, from 17:00 to 18:00, the Master in Microelectronics will host its first Career Guidance Activity. Alberto Rodríguez Pérez, Director of the AMS Design Group at KD, will deliver the online talk "From Silicon to System: The Evolution of Automotive Optical Transceivers at KD".

He will discuss the challenges of scaling a microelectronics concept from a startup idea into a high-volume automotive product, the real-world difficulties of analog design in harsh environments, and how the role of an IC designer evolves during company growth.

🥇 Mario Pliego Padilla, recipient of the Extraordinary Graduate Award

We are proud to announce that our graduate, Mario Pliego Padilla, has been granted the Extraordinary Award by the University of Seville for his brilliant academic performance in the University Master's Degree in Microelectronics during the 2024/25 academic year.

This prestigious distinction is awarded to the student with the best academic record of their class, highlighting excellence and a high level of expertise. From the Master's coordination, we would like to publicly congratulate Mario for this well-deserved achievement, which reflects both his personal effort and the high quality of our alumni.

Job Offer: Technical support for AI techniques development in IC design (IMSE-CNM)

The Institute of Microelectronics of Seville is looking for personnel to develop AI-based predictive models and multi-objective optimization techniques for AMS/RF circuits. Project funded by the Junta de Andalucía.

Key Requirement: This must be your first professional experience as a graduate. Open to graduates in Physics, Electronic Engineering, Robotics, Telecommunications, or Computer Engineering.

Job Offer: Technical support for experimental hardware reliability and security evaluation (IMSE-CNM)

Opportunity to work on designing and operating measurement benches for the characterization of integrated circuits and conducting experimental campaigns for hardware security.

Key Requirement: Call exclusively designed to boost talent from scratch; it must be your first job as a graduate. Open to graduates in Physics, Electronics, Robotics, Telecommunications, or Computer Engineering.

Conference: "The chip revolution: The oil of the 21st century"

Conference by scientific communicator and electronics professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, Ignacio Mártil de la Plaza.

The conference will take place on November 14 at 11:30 AM at the Assembly Hall of the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering (ETSII) of the University of Seville. Promoted by USECHIP, Microelectronics Chair of the US.

Presentation of the USECHIP Mentoring Plan 25/26

The USECHIP Chair launches the 2025/26 Mentoring Plan, aimed at Master's and final-year undergraduate students of the University of Seville in disciplines related to microelectronics.

This plan aims to bring students closer to companies in the sector, facilitating paid external internships, training, and co-tutored Master's Theses. The presentation event will take place on Tuesday, September 30 at 5:30 PM with the participation of Teledyne Anafocus, Alter Technology, Ontech, and KD.

Predoctoral contract at the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville

The Security and Reliability in CMOS and Emerging Technologies Group of the IMSE-CNM is looking for highly motivated candidates to carry out their doctoral thesis funded by a predoctoral contract within the TIRELESS-IMSE project (RELIABILITY, SECURITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS FOR IoT EDGE).

Seminar: "CASS Goes to University: Circuits and Systems for massively parallel signal recording and processing"

Given by Drs. Manuel Delgado-Restituto and Ricardo Carmona-Galán at the Assembly Hall, Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, on July 11, 2025, at 10:30 am.

CASS Goes to University is a new initiative of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) to present technical CAS-related content, info about CASS, and resources that CASS can bring to the students, such as educational material, networking, and travel scholarships.