ICEE'98:

This paper describes an educational multimedia network currently being developed in ASTEP, a project funded by the European Commission under the Educational Multimedia/Telematics Applications programme. ASTEP (Advanced Software for Training and Evaluation of Processes) is a 2--year project which started in February of 1998 and is set up by a mixed industry-academia consortium with the objective of meeting the educational l training demands of the highly competitive microelectronics semiconductor industry.
The ASTEP consortium is 1ed by the Heriot-Watt University in the UK and brings together universities and companies from five European countries (UK, Portugal, France, Norway and Germany). The industry part of this consortium is related to semiconductor fabrication and microsystems manufacturing and includes Motorola (the factories in East Kilbride in the UK and Toulouse in France), Applied Materials GmbH (Germany) and SensoNor (Norway).