KLA-Tencor Partners with San Jose State Engineering Program

Silicon Valley companies, led by KLA-Tencor and Xilinx, are investing in a San Jose State program to help ensure that the Bay Area continues to produce a steady stream of engineers.
The firms, which also include Cisco Systems, Intel and Aruba Networks, have pledged $1 million in donations over the next five years to the Engineering Pathways to Success program that's part of San Jose State's Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering. KLA-Tencor and Xilinx have each committed $250,000 over five years.

Engineering Pathways to Success is a public-private initiative that tries to steer middle school and high school students into college engineering programs -- and eventually into engineering jobs. More than 2,000 students in 23 Bay Area schools are participating in the program, which is founded on a nationally known curriculum called Project Lead the Way. Another 20 schools in the Bay Area plan to offer classes with the curriculum in the fall. --- /San Jose Mercury News/

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