Built by the people who do the work.
NASPT is to be governed by the professionals it serves. The structure below is the model the association is being built on, designed so that no single employer, vendor, or training provider can control the standard.
Four bodies. Divided authority.
Board of Directors
Holds fiduciary and strategic authority. Composed of representatives from semiconductor manufacturing, technician practice, and workforce education. No more than one seat may be held by any single employer. Directors serve staggered terms.
Employer Advisory Council
Ratifies the competency framework and certification blueprint. Seats are held by semiconductor manufacturers, OSATs, and equipment and materials suppliers. Advisory to the board, with defined authority over technical content.
Technician Council
Ensures the standard reflects the job as performed rather than as imagined. Seats are held by practicing process technicians across process areas, employers, and regions. Charter members are eligible to serve.
Education Advisory Group
Advises on curriculum alignment and pathway design. Seats are held by community college, technical school, and registered apprenticeship program leaders.
The credibility of a credential rests entirely on the independence of the body that issues it.
The association is being built to operate under the following commitments:
- No single employer holds more than one Board seat
- Certification content decisions require Employer Advisory Council and Technician Council concurrence
- Practicing technicians hold a defined minimum share of Technician Council seats
- NASPT does not sell training and does not accredit or endorse specific training vendors
- Curriculum alignment review is to be available to any accredited program regardless of membership status
- Council members recuse themselves from decisions affecting their employer's commercial interests
Rosters will be published as seats are filled.
NASPT is forming its Board, Employer Advisory Council, Technician Council, and Education Advisory Group. No seats are filled yet.
Legal and fiscal structure
NASPT is a new association in its founding year, and its legal and fiscal structure is being established now. Nonprofit status, the treatment of contributions, and the arrangements for financial oversight are not settled.
This page will state the structure once it is in place, with the specifics rather than the intent. Until then, please do not assume any particular tax or charitable treatment.
Funding model
NASPT's foundational work is designed to be grant-funded rather than dues-funded. That is a structural commitment in how the association is being built, not a temporary arrangement.
The standard of practice, the competency framework, workforce research, and curriculum alignment review are to be published as public resources, available to any employer, college, or apprenticeship program in the country regardless of membership status. A national standard that only paying members can see does not function as a national standard.
Funding is being sought through federal semiconductor workforce programs, registered apprenticeship funding, NSF Advanced Technological Education, and regional workforce and economic development partners. None of it is secured.
Documents on request.
NASPT's bylaws, conflict of interest policy, and council charters are being drafted alongside the governance structure described above. They will be published on this page once adopted, rather than held back for members and funders to request privately.
The same applies to financial reporting and to the council rosters. Nothing on this page describes a document that exists today. It describes what the association is being built to be, and what gets published as each piece is settled.
The councils are being formed.
This is the window in which the profession gets defined, and none of it is settled yet.